Exegesis and Chaucer's Dream Visions

Author / Editor
Whitman, F. H.

Title
Exegesis and Chaucer's Dream Visions

Published
Chaucer Review 3.4 (1969): 229-38.

Description
Identifies "structural similarities" among BD, PF, and HF, arguing that each poem is an "elaborate narrative orchestrating a moral theme from some work of antiquity . . . foreshadowed in [its] preamble." Each is reminiscent of Macrobius's "enigmatic dream" and a moral allegory; considered together they comprise a meditation on salvation and "love's place within the framework of true and false felicity."

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Parliament of Fowls
House of Fame
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations