Chaucer's 'Book of Fame': An Exposition of 'The House of Fame,'Clarendon P., 1968 - 191 Seiten A Middle English poem by Geoffrey Chaucer, probably written between 1374 and 1385, making it one of his earlier works. It was most likely written after The Book of the Duchess, but its chronological relation to Chaucer's other early poems is uncertain. The House of Fame is over 2,005 lines long in three books and takes the form of a dream vision composed in octosyllabic couplets. Upon falling asleep the poet finds himself in a glass temple adorned with images of the famous and their deeds. With an eagle as a guide, he meditates on the nature of fame and the trustworthiness of recorded renown. This allows Chaucer to contemplate the role of the poet in reporting the lives of the famous and how much truth there is in what can be told. |
Inhalt
Venus and Virgil | 1 |
Speculum Naturale or poetical physics | 52 |
The Palace of Fame | 100 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Aeneas Aeneas's Aeneid Aeolus Alanus Alanus's allusion Anticlaudianus Apollo appears association Aventure bird Boccaccio Boethius Book canto castle Chaucer Cupid Dante Dante's deorum depicted described Dido Dido's divine dream dreamer dreme eagle eagle's ecphrasis Fama Fame Fame's palace figures Fortune Fortune's Gavin Douglas gentilesse glory goddess Gower Guido delle Colonne hall heaven hint house of Fame Il Filostrato Jean de Meun Jove Juno Jupiter Knight's Tale later Legend lines lovers Macrobius medieval ment Morpheus Muses Nature noght Ovid Ovid's Paradiso Parliament passage Petrarch phrase pillars poem poet poet's poetic poetry proem Purg quam reference renown Roman Rumour says scene Scipio sense shal simile sound Statius story suggestion swich temple of Venus Teseida theme thou tidings Troilus Troy Troy Book trumpet Venus's temple viii Virgil Virgilian winds winged wonder words