"Therout com so gret a noyse": The Harmony of the Spheres and Chaucerian Poetics.

Author / Editor
Keller, Wolfram R.

Title
"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