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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 85
Page 58
... things spiritual . In the sovereign realm of language , hell and heaven are linked , however , for English hell and French ciel are doublets whose root meaning is “ hidden , covered . " Greek hades means " unseen . " Since things seen ...
... things spiritual . In the sovereign realm of language , hell and heaven are linked , however , for English hell and French ciel are doublets whose root meaning is “ hidden , covered . " Greek hades means " unseen . " Since things seen ...
Page 59
... things as matter , followed by the imaginative eye which discerns things distinct from matter , the reasoning eye which sees the species which a subtantial thing represents , and , finally , the eye of understanding which grasps the ...
... things as matter , followed by the imaginative eye which discerns things distinct from matter , the reasoning eye which sees the species which a subtantial thing represents , and , finally , the eye of understanding which grasps the ...
Page 168
... things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shapes . ( MND 5 , 1 , 12–16 ) 3. Dante , in Paradiso 30 , 70–81 , compares the immediate grasp of angelic intelligence with the labyrinthine confusion through which man must pass to ...
... things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shapes . ( MND 5 , 1 , 12–16 ) 3. Dante , in Paradiso 30 , 70–81 , compares the immediate grasp of angelic intelligence with the labyrinthine confusion through which man must pass to ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Loves Progressions and Successions | 40 |
The Legend of Good | 57 |
Copyright | |
8 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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