Chaucer's Chain of Love

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1996 - 215 pàgines
This book traces the thematic and structural implication for Chaucer's poetry of the chain of love between God and his creation, an image used by the Platonist philosophers of Chaucer's day, as well as by the church as a metaphor for God's providential love. As a structural principle, the chain of love is the intermediary between constituents of time, space, and words.

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A Tale of Two Cities
13
Chaucers Chain of Love in the European Tradition
18
Loves Progressions and Successions
40
Frayed Bonds of Sight and Word The Legend of Good Women
57
WordChains of Love The Parliament Troilus and the Knights Tale
71
Economies of Word as Bonds of Love Dorigen and Grisilde
92
Aping Gods Chain of Love The First Fragment
107
Quests and Parodies of Quests for the Chain of Love
120
Ends of the Chain Parson and Prologue
138
Memory and Design
151
Notes
158
Abbreviations
196
Bibliography
197
Index
211
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Pàgina 18 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Pàgina 108 - Of smal coral aboute hire arm she bar A peire of bedes, gauded al with grene, And theron heng a brooch of gold ful sheene, On which ther was first write a crowned A, And after Amor vincit omnia.
Pàgina 57 - A thousand tymes have I herd men telle That ther ys joy in hevene and peyne in helle, And I acorde wel that it ys so; But, natheles, yet wot I wel also...
Pàgina 57 - That eyther hath in hevene or helle ybe, Ne may of hit noon other weyes witen, But as he hath herd seyd, or founde it writen ; For by assay ther may no man it preve.
Pàgina 93 - Se ye nat, lord, how mankynde it destroyeth? An hundred thousand bodyes of mankynde Han rokkes slayn, al be they nat in mynde; Which mankynde is so fair part of thy werk That thou it madest lyk to thyn owene merk.
Pàgina 83 - So wolde God, that auctour is of kynde, That with his bond Love of his vertu liste To cerclen hertes alle and faste bynde. That from his bond no wight the wey out wiste; And hertes colde, hem wolde I that he twiste To make hem love, and that hem liste ay rewe On hertes sore, and kepe hem that ben trewe!

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