The Realism of Dream Visions: The Poetic Exploitation of the Dream-Experience in Chaucer and His Contemporaries.
- Author/Editor
- Hieatt, Constance.
- Title
- The Realism of Dream Visions: The Poetic Exploitation of the Dream-Experience in Chaucer and His Contemporaries.
- Published
- Hieatt, Constance. The Realism of Dream Visions: The Poetic Exploitation of the Dream-Experience in Chaucer and His Contemporaries. De Proprietatibus Litterarum, Series Poetica, no. 2. The Hague: Mouton, 1967, pp. 47-49.
- Review
- Suggests that Gower was experimenting with the possibilities of dream, since his approach to the dream-vision in the CA is ambiguous; the Lover may be asleep when he meets Venus and Cupid, or he may not; his dreams are sometimes prophetic, and sometimes simple wish-fulfillment; his use of dreams in the stories is invariably different, tale to tale. Based on Hieatt’s “Dream Allegory in Middle English Poetry: The Use of Dream Effects in Fourteenth-Century Dream Visions.” Ph.D. Dissertation. Yale University, 1959. [RFY1981]
- Date
- 1959
1967
- Gower Subjects
- Backgrounds and General Criticism
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