The Poetics of the Elegiac Dream Vision in Middle English Literature.
- Author / Editor
- Barootes, Benjamin S. W.
The Poetics of the Elegiac Dream Vision in Middle English Literature.
- Published
- Open access Ph.D. dissertation. McGill University, 2016.
Available at https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/.
Accessed February 7, 2021.
- Description
- Examines "how Middle English poets deployed the dream vision genre and the elegiac mode to explore the limitations of language and interrogate the art of poetry." Includes discussion of how in BD the Black Knight's "move from the closed circle of repetitive grief to the vital progress of narrative . . . parallels the poet's own literary movement from courtly lyrics to sustained narrative poetry."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess