Chaucer's Dream Poems


 
 

1. Dream Poems in General
 A.C Spearing: Medieval Dream Poetry (1976)
 C.B. Hieatt: The Realism of Dream Visions (1967)
 P. Boitani: English Medieval Narrative in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries (Cambridge,1982)
 A.C. Spearing: in Reading in Medieval Poetry (1987) (Ch. 4)
P. Boitani, 'Old Books brought to life in dreams: The Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame and the Parliament of Fowls.' In The Cambridge Chaucer Companion, eds. P. Boitani and J. Mann, (Cambridge, 1986)
R. Jordan, Chaucer's Poetics and the Modern Reader (University of California Press, 1987)
Stephen Knight, Geoffrey Chaucer, Re-Reading Chaucer (Oxford, Blackwell, 1986),  ch. 1.
*A. J. Minnis, Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Shorter Poems, (Cambridge, 1995)
Barry Windeatt, Chaucer's Dream Poetry: Sources and Analogues, (Boydell and Brewer, 1982)
Katherine L. Lynch, The High Medieval Dream Vision (Stanford, 1988).
 

2. Book of Duchess
J. J. Anderson, 'The Narrators in the Book of the Duchess and the Parliament of Fowls.' Chaucer Review26 (1992), 219--35.
P. C. Boardman, 'Courtly Language and the Strategy of Consolation in the Book of the Duchess.' English Literary History 44 (1977), 567-79.
M. Cherniss: 'The Boethian Dialogue in Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess ', JEGP 68 (1969), 655-65
---, 'The Narrator Asleep and Awake in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess', PLL 8 (1972), 115-26.J. J. Anderson, 'The Narrators in the Book of the Duchess and the Parliament of Fowls.' Chaucer Review  26 (1992), 219--35.
P. C. Boardman, 'Courtly Language and the Strategy of Consolation in the Book of the Duchess.' English Literary History 44 (1977), 567-79.
Steve Ellis, 'The Death of the Book of the Duchess.' Chaucer Review 29 (1995), 249-57.
Judith Ferster, Chaucer on Interpretation (Cambridge, 1985), ch. 4
R. W. Hanning , 'The Theme of Art and Life in Chaucer's Poetry,' in Geoffrey Chaucer: A Collection of Original Articles, ed. G. D. Econonmou (New York, McGraw-Hill, 1975, pp. 15-36.
Phillippa Hardman, 'The Book of the Duchess as a Memorial Monument.' Chaucer Review 28 (1994), 205-15.
Lisa J. Kiser, 'Sleep, Dreams and Poetry in Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess',  in  Critical Essays on Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and his Major Early Poems, Ed. C. David Benson, (Toronto, 1991)
D. Lawton, Chaucer's Narrators (Cambridge, D. S. Brewer, 1983)
R. A. Shoaf, 'Stalking the Sorrowful H[e]art: Penitential Lore and the Hunt Scene in Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess.' Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 78 (1979), 313-24.
 
 

3. Parliament of Fowls
H.M. Leicester: 'The Harmony of Chaucer's Parliament: A Dissonant Voice', ChR 9 (1974), 15-34.
D. Aers: 'The Parlement of Foules: Authority, the Knower and the Known.' ChR 16 (1981), 1-17.
L.M. Sklute: 'The Inconclusive Form of the Parliament of Fowls', ChR 16 (1981), 119-28.
D. Aers, 'The Parlement of Foules: Authority, the Knower and the Known.' Chaucer Review 16 (1981), 1-17.
J. A. W. Bennett, The Parlement of Foules: An Interpretation (Oxford, 1957)
Judith Ferster, Chaucer on Interpretation (Cambridge, 1985), ch. 3
John M. Fyler, 'The discordant concord of The Parliament of Fowls.' In Critical Essays on Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and his Major Early Poems, Ed. C. David Benson, (Toronto, 1991)
Kathleen Hewitt, ''Ther it was First': Dream Poetics in the Parliament of Fowls.' Chaucer Review  24 (1989), 20-28.
H.M. Leicester, 'The Harmony of Chaucer's Parliament: A Dissonant Voice.' Chaucer Review 9 (1974), 15-34.
Russell A. Peck, 'Love, Politics and Plot in the Parliament of Fowls.' Chaucer Review  24 (1990), 290-305.
 
 

4. House of Fame
K. Stevenson: The Endings of Chaucer's House of Fame', English Studies 59, (1978), 10-26.
S. Delany: Chaucer's 'House of Fame': The Poetics of Skeptical Fideism, (1972)
P. Boitani: Chaucer and the Imaginary World of Fame (1984) (last 1/3rd)
C.P.R. Tisdale: 'The House of Fame: Virgilian Reason and Boethian Wisdom', Comp. Lit. 25 (1973), 247-61.
House of Fame
J.A.W. Bennett, Chaucer's Book of Fame, (Oxford, 1968)
L. D. Benson, 'The "Love-Tydynges" in Chaucer's House of Fame'. In J. N. Wasserman and R. J. Blanch (eds.) Chaucer in the Eighties (Syracuse, NY, 1986), pp. 3-22.
P. Boitani, 'Chaucer's Labyrinth: Fourteenth-Century Literature and Language'. Chaucer Review 17, (1982), 197-220.
Lisa J. Kiser, 'Eschatological Poetics in the House of Fame'.  Modern Language Quarterly 49 (1988), 99-119.
Lara Ruffolo, 'Literary Authority and the Lists of Chaucer's House of Fame: Destruction and Definition through Proliferation.' Chaucer Review 27 (1993), 325-41.
K. Stevenson, The Endings of Chaucer's House of Fame', English Studies 59, (1978), 10-26.
L. Sklute, Virtue of Necessity: Inconclusiveness and Narrative Form in Chaucer's Poetry (Ohio State University, 1984).

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Jane Chance: Chaucer and the Learned Tradition