Medieval dream-poetry / A. C. Spearing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spearing, A. C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Dreams in literature.

Physical Description:

vii, 236 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1976.

Contents:

Part I Dreams and Visions

1 The nature of dream-poetry

2 Spiritual adventure

3 Macrobious on Scipio's dream

4 Scriptural and Christian visions

5 Visions of place

5 Doctrinal visions

6 The Roman de la Rose: Guillaume de Lorris

7 The Roman de la Rose: Jean de Meun

8 Fourteenth-century dream poems

Part II Chaucer

1 The Book of the Duchess

2 The House of Fame

3 The Parliament of Fowls

4 The Prologue to The Legend of Good Women

Part III The Alliterative Tradition

1 Pearl

2 The Piers Plowman tradition: Winner and Waster

3 The Parliament of the Three Ages

4 Piers Plowman: the A-text

5 Piers Plowman: the B-revision

6 Langland's followers: Mum and the Sothsegger

7 Death and Life

Part IV The Chaucerian Tradition

1 Lydgate: The Temple of Glass

2 Clanvowe: The Cuckoo and the Nightingale

3 The Kingis Quair

4 Scottish dream-prologues

5 Dunbar

6 Skelton: the Bowge of Court

Douglas: The Palice of Honour

7 Skelton: The Garland of Laurel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521211948 :

OCLC:

2118648