"Therout com so gret a noyse": The Harmony of the Spheres and Chaucerian Poetics.
- Author / Editor
- Keller, Wolfram R.
"Therout com so gret a noyse": The Harmony of the Spheres and Chaucerian Poetics.
- Published
- In Jacomien Prins and Maude Vanhaelen, eds. Sing Aloud Harmonious Spheres: Renaissance Conceptions of Cosmic Harmony (New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 80-98.
- Description
- Notes that Chaucer "uses musical references and metaphors in his poetry in order to discuss the art of writing poetry itself," and argues that in HF--and even in PF--Chaucer advances a "poetics of noise." Summarizes the "reception of the Pythagorean-Platonic conceptions" of cosmic harmony in late medieval England, and suggests that, while attempting to reaffirm harmony in "Temple of Glass," John Lydgate failed to "suppress Chaucerian cacophony."
- Contributor
- Prins, Jacomien, ed.
Vanhaelen, Maude, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Sing Aloud Harmonious Spheres: Renaissance Conceptions of Cosmic Harmony.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
Parliament of Fowls
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion