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Dream Visions and Other Poems
A Norton Critical Edition
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Additionally, the volume includes six scholarly essays in 'Criticism' that explore the poems' central themes, contributed by noted academics such as Charles Muscatine and A. C. Spearing. It also offers a chronology and selected bibliography to support further study.
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Ideal for students, scholars, and readers interested in medieval literature and Chaucer's poetic works, as well as those seeking a comprehensive annotated edition that situates the poems within their broader historical and literary context.
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See moreThis Norton Critical Edition presents Chaucerβs four dream visions and selected shorter poems and is suitable for both beginning and advanced students.
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The texts are extensively glossed and are accompanied by individual introductions and explanatory annotations. A lightly regularised system of spellings has been adopted. No prior knowledge of Chaucer is assumed.
Dream Visions and Other Poems connects the poems to their classical and medieval foundations and includes works by Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Boethius, Dante, and Boccaccio, among others.
From the wealth of scholarly work available, the editor has chosen for "Criticism" six essays that address the poems' central themes. Contributors include Charles Muscatine, A. C. Spearing, R. T. Lenaghan, Richard Firth Green, Elaine Tuttle Hansen, and Steven Kruger.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780393925883
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 13 December 2006
Country: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Edition: Critical edition
Contributors:
- Edited by Kathryn L. Lynch
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 13.0mm
Width: 145.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 345g
Pages: 416
About the Author
Kathryn L. Lynch is Katharine Lee Bates and Sophie Chantal Hart Professor of English at Wellesley College. She is the author of The High Medieval Dream Vision: Poetry, Philosophy, and Literary Form and Chaucerβs Philosophical Dream Visions and editor of Chaucerβs Cultural Geography. Her articles have appeared in, among other publications, The Chaucer Review, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, and Speculum.
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