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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... poet's account of his loving adoration of the daisy and further into the dream which it informs . The dream - figure of Alceste is a sign of the daisy's form . The sequence of attractions that leads the dreamer to Alceste describes an ...
... poet's account of his loving adoration of the daisy and further into the dream which it informs . The dream - figure of Alceste is a sign of the daisy's form . The sequence of attractions that leads the dreamer to Alceste describes an ...
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... poet's experi- ence before the dream . The dream opens with the poet lying in devotional wonder before the daisy . We do not see what he sees , but we see his seeing and his reading of what he sees . Where the poet in his waking state ...
... poet's experi- ence before the dream . The dream opens with the poet lying in devotional wonder before the daisy . We do not see what he sees , but we see his seeing and his reading of what he sees . Where the poet in his waking state ...
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... poet's verse of being an at- traction to love only to " lewed folk ” ( 414–16 ) . Having impugned both his looks and his language , how can she expect him to write better now ? Writing better involves linking the sight of love with an ...
... poet's verse of being an at- traction to love only to " lewed folk ” ( 414–16 ) . Having impugned both his looks and his language , how can she expect him to write better now ? Writing better involves linking the sight of love with an ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Loves Progressions and Successions | 40 |
The Legend of Good | 57 |
Copyright | |
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