A 1976 study of the medieval English dream-poem, set against the
background of classical and medieval visionary and religious
writings and the theory of dreams from classical times down to
Freud and Jung. In this first general treatment of one of the most
popular kinds of literature in the Middle Ages, Mr Spearing
examines many specific poems in some detail and explores the nature
of the visionary tradition in which medieval dream-poets felt
themselves to be writing: he develops a theory of the dream-poem as
a type of work in which medieval poets focused their own
consciousness of the activity of creating imaginative fictions,
variously and often ambiguously balanced between vision and
fantasy. The book begins with the early tradition of dream poetry
in Latin writers such as Boethius, moving on to consider Chaucer,
alliterative dream-poems, especially Pearl and Piers Plowman, and
finally turning to late medieval dream-poetry.
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