Chaucer's Dream Poetry: Sources and AnaloguesBarry A. Windeatt Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 1982 - 168 pages This volume makes available in translation the texts that lie behind Chaucer's dream poems - The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, The House of Fame and Prologue to the Legend of Good Women. Chaucer's dream poems are now being increasingly studied and appreciated. With their attractively bookish dreamer figure and their graceful use of conventions and traditions, they have their distinctive place in Chaucer's work. But the nodern reader of these medieval poems particularly needs a sense of their literary context in the tradition of comparable narrative poems - largely in OId French - which Chaucer knew and drew upon. None of these French poems has ever been made available in English translation before, and many of the texts are difficult to access, being available only in dated French scholarly editions. The authors represented are Froissart, Machaut and Deschamps, as well as some minor and anonymous poems, and there are also relevant translations from Cicero and Boccaccio. The book gives an idea of what Chaucer's sources were in themselves, and in what ways the English poet was inspired to use and go beyond them, and this presents a picture of the poet at work. Some of the French poems are translated carefully by Chaucer, while with other poems he is selective, interested in certain sections of his sources only. In further cases, the original material can be seen to have provided a more general point of departure for Chaucer's own developments on his work. |
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Table des matières
Jean Froissart Le Paradys dAmours | 26 |
Cicero The Dream of Scipio | 73 |
Alanus de Insulis De Planctu Naturae extract | 81 |
Jean de Condé | 104 |
Oton de Grandson | 120 |
Jean Froissart | 133 |
Guillaume de Machaut | 139 |
58 | 162 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
asked balade beautiful Behaingne birds Blancheflour body called certainly Ceyx Chaucer's clerk colour comfort complaint courteous courtesy Courtly Love creature death delight desire dream poems Duchess Durbuy entremets everything faith fear feel flower Fortune French Froissart garden gentle Geoffrey Chaucer Giovanni Boccaccio give gladly goddess grace gracious grey nuns grief Guillaume de Machaut happy hear heard heart honour hope House of Fame humble J. A. W. Bennett Jean Froissart judgement king knight listen lord lover loyal Marguerite mercy Morpheus Nature never nightingale noble pain Paris Parliament of Fowls Pity Plaisance pleasure poet praise pure replied rose seemed serve singing sleep song sorrow soul sources and analogues suffer sweet look tell thing thought thrush translated tree true truly truth Venus virelay whoever wise wish words worthy wounded