Chaucer's Chain of LoveThis book traces the thematic and structural implication for Chaucer's poetry of the chain of love between God and his creation, an image used by the Platonist philosophers of Chaucer's day, as well as by the church as a metaphor for God's providential love. As a structural principle, the chain of love is the intermediary between constituents of time, space, and words. |
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Loves Progressions and Successions | 40 |
The Legend of Good | 57 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Chaucer's Chain of Love |
| Author | Paul Beekman Taylor |
| Publisher | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0838636829, 9780838636824 |
| Length | 215 pages |
| Subjects | › › Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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