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In Search of Chaucer (Paperback)
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In Search of Chaucer (Paperback)
Series: Alexander Lectures
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In this volume, Professor Bronson is primarily interested in the
three worlds which appear in Chaucer's poetry: the dream world; the
world of the mundane existence and waking observation; and the
world of imagined life through reading. A study of these worlds
raises questions about the kind of truth which resides in each, the
literary values which can be extracted from them, their essentail
relation to one another, and the perennial problem of appearance
and reality. Professor Bronson is also concerned with the general
critical approach to Chaucer's writings. He feels that many recent
Chaucerian scholars have been misled by their application of
critical disciplines nourished on the metaphysical poets to a poet
who deliberately practised a style capable of being followed by a
moderately attentive ear. The fact that Chaucer's poetry was
composed for oral delivery has received no more than lip service
from critics; yet Chaucer's relation to his audience is obviously
of the greatest importance in understanding his poems. It behooves
us, therefore, to clarify our thoughts as to the kind of techniques
we may fittingly apply. Professor Bronson suggests that a less
sophisticated way of looking at the subject might yield better
results. Professor Bronson's book is a form of introduction to this
new view of Chaucer; it is not a complete guide but an explanatory
visit to each sphere of Chaucer's world, skilfully evocative of the
people of the dream legends, the pilgrimage, the literary heroes
and heroines of the Middle Ages, whom Chaucer brought into his
poetry. This book is decorated with drawings in the manner of
woodcuts taken from the three worlds of Chaucer's poetry. The
Alexander Lectures for 1958-59.
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