Chaucer's Mind and Art

A. C. CAWLEY allegory Arcite audience birds Boccaccio's Boethius bourgeois Canterbury Canterbury Tales century character Chaucer's poetry Chaucer's reading comedy comic contrast courtly love D. S. Brewer Dante devices devil discussion dream dream-poem dreamer Duchess edition editor emphasises Essays example exegesis fabliaux Faral Filostrato Foulys Friar's Tale garden Geoffrey Chaucer House of Fame human iambic influence interest irony kind Knight's Tale Language learning Legend lines litel literary London lovers manuscript Merchant's Tale metrical Middle Ages mind modern criticism narrator nature Noble Kinsmen Nun's Priest's Tale Oxford Palamon Pandarus parallelism Parlement of Foules passage perhaps Philology pilgrims play poet poet's poetic Prologue prose prosody reader realism recognise repetition rhetorical rhetoricians Robertson Roman scholars scholarship sense Shakespeare Somnium story summoner summoner's theme Theseus things thyng tradition Troilus and Cressida Troilus and Criseyde Troilus's Venus verse words writing