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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Page 63
... dream adoration of both the flower and the women who is its sign . Curiously , not only is affection in the dream different , but it seems to belie the knit of love which is the poet's experi- ence before the dream . The dream opens ...
... dream adoration of both the flower and the women who is its sign . Curiously , not only is affection in the dream different , but it seems to belie the knit of love which is the poet's experi- ence before the dream . The dream opens ...
Page 64
... dream and waking state at the end of the Prologue . Just after Love has advised the poet to make his examples of ... dream . This wonderful suspension of dream state is avoided in the G - text of the Prologue : “ And with that 66 word ...
... dream and waking state at the end of the Prologue . Just after Love has advised the poet to make his examples of ... dream . This wonderful suspension of dream state is avoided in the G - text of the Prologue : “ And with that 66 word ...
Page 129
... dream.25 When Thopas is struck with love - longing , he cries out " O seinte Marie , benedi- cite !, " aligning paratactically the invisible object of his love with the Virgin Mary and himself with the religious fervor of innocent youth ...
... dream.25 When Thopas is struck with love - longing , he cries out " O seinte Marie , benedi- cite !, " aligning paratactically the invisible object of his love with the Virgin Mary and himself with the religious fervor of innocent youth ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Loves Progressions and Successions | 40 |
The Legend of Good | 57 |
Copyright | |
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