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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... grace , we might say , although we may suspect that only her saying makes it so , for words have the awesome power of making the past present and the present future . Illusion , like dream visions , makes us believe so . Dreams " hold ...
... grace , we might say , although we may suspect that only her saying makes it so , for words have the awesome power of making the past present and the present future . Illusion , like dream visions , makes us believe so . Dreams " hold ...
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... grace . Man's word reflects God's logos , the latter giving life and the former destroying it . The Parson reminds ... grace , but can only plead for the grace which is the free gift of another . So Chaucer sends forth his little tragedy ...
... grace . Man's word reflects God's logos , the latter giving life and the former destroying it . The Parson reminds ... grace , but can only plead for the grace which is the free gift of another . So Chaucer sends forth his little tragedy ...
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... grace — his appetite fulfilled - even before he exercises his will for it . When she draws back the bed - curtain to ... grace , 14 though the literal figuration lacks a certain justice . The fortunate knight is absolved of a heinous ...
... grace — his appetite fulfilled - even before he exercises his will for it . When she draws back the bed - curtain to ... grace , 14 though the literal figuration lacks a certain justice . The fortunate knight is absolved of a heinous ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Loves Progressions and Successions | 40 |
The Legend of Good | 57 |
Copyright | |
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Alceste amor Arcite argues Arveragus Aurelius body Boece Boethius Boethius's bond of love Cambridge Canon's Canterbury Canterbury Tales chain of love Chaucer's Chaucer's day Chaucer's poetry Chauntecleer ChauR Christ Christian cites Clerk cosmic courtly creation Criseyde Dante Dante's divine Dorigen dream eternal explains fictional figure Franklin's Tale gentilesse Geoffrey Chaucer God's grace Grisilde Grisilde's Harry heaven idea invisible Jill Mann John Jupiter Knight's tale language Legend London love's man's marriage meaning mediates Medieval Miller's narrative nature Oxford Pandarus Pardoner's Parliament of Fowls Parson Philosophy pilgrimage pilgrims Platonic poem poet Poetics Princeton Prologue purgatory quest Saturn says sense sexual shal sight soul Speculum spiritual story tale of Melibee Theseus Theseus's things Thopas Thopas's thynges Timaeus Troilus Troilus and Criseyde Troilus's University Press Venus Virgin virtue Walter Wife of Bath Wife's woman womb women words