Public Dreams and Private Myths: Perspective in Middle English Literature.

Author / Editor
Peck, Russell A.

Title
Public Dreams and Private Myths: Perspective in Middle English Literature.

Published
PMLA 90 (1975): 461-68.

Description
Compares relations between cosmology and psychology in medieval and modern understandings of poetry, emphasizing the concentric and expanding perspectives prompted by Middle English imagery and world views, exemplified in several lyrics. Includes comments on Biblical imagery in MilT, audience responsibility in PrP, and the scribe as an analogue to the Edenic Adam in Adam Scriveyn.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Miller and His Tale
Prioress and Her Tale
Adam Scriveyn