Stanza wise explanation/translation of Chaucer Canterbury Tales.


The Age of Chaucer
The Prologue
from The Canterbury Tales
Poem by Geoffrey Chaucer Translated by Nevill Coghill

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Chapter Page
I. CHAUCER'S PURPOSE IN WRITING THE CANTERBURY
TALES
Primary and secondary purposes of the Canterbury
Tales--Motivation behind the primary purpose--
Motivation behind the secondary purpose.
11. CHAUCER'S VIEW OF THE CHURCH IN ENGLAND I S
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FOURTEENTH CENTURY
III.
Historical documents declare the wretched condi-
tions--"Internal" causes of Church weakness--
External causes of Church weakness: principally
John Wyclif and the Lollards.
CHAUCER'S PORTRAYAL OF FOURTEENTH-CENTURY
CHURCHMEN
Fourteenth century as mirrored in Chaucer's
writings--Two types of Churchmen: hypocritical
and sincere--The first type: the Monk, the Friar
and the Summoner, the Pardoner--Chaucer's appli- cation of distinction between Divine Authority
and human frailty.
IV. CHAUCER'S PORTRAYAL OF THE PARSON

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Spenser Content

Poem Text

Introduction
Epithalamion is a poem of 433 iambic lines of varying lengths,
divided into twenty-three stanzas and an envoi—twenty-four sections in
all. The title means, literally, “at the nuptial chamber,” from the Greek
(epi and thalanos); the poem celebrates the twenty-four hours of the poet’s
wedding day. The poem is written in the first person, and much of it is
addressed to the Muses, nymphs, other bridal attendants, and wedding
guests. The twenty-four sections do not correspond precisely to the
twenty-four hours of the wedding day, yet the poem moves
chronologically through the entire day.
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Abstract
"A Poetics of Emotion: Sidney, Spenser, and the Poetry of Thoughtful
Movement" argues that poets in late sixteenth-century England demonstrated the efficacy
of their poems in the ethical and intellectual lives of their readers by conceptualizing
those poems in terms of the thinking and moving of their readers. Chapter 1 explores a
novel interpretation of Philip Sidney's Defence of Poetry that links that treatise's
emphasis on the moving powers of poetry with the equine references throughout, both of
these emphases suggesting interesting engagements with and revisions of Horatian
poetics. But this melding of ideas into new concepts means also that poets need new
words.
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SOME THEMES IN
SPENSER'S " PROTHALAMION."
BY DANIEL H. WOODWARD
Edmund Spenser's "Prothalamion" is one of the most re-
spected poems in English literature, but most readers rank it
somewhat below the magnificent " Epithalamion," and some find
it rather formal and lacking in warmth of feeling. Typical is this
comment: " Like the Amoretti, it is not great poetry because
it does not proceed from aroused conviction; it is a set piece,
which deserves the praise due to graceful accomplishment." 1 A
vague uneasiness is found in the remarks of many critics, one
of whom, David Daiches, makes this specific objection in the mid-
dle of a generally appreciative and enlightening commentary:
" The poem ends with just a tinge of abruptness.

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PLATONISM AND THE IDEA OF LOVE IN SPENSER'S MINOR POEMS

Santiago Fernández-Corugedo
University of Oviedo. Spain I would like to warn the possible audience of these considerations
about the fact that I shall be mainly dealing with some very specific shorter poems by Edmund Spenser (London, circa 1552 -Westminster, 1599),
instead of quoting lavishly from his two longer works as it seems that
contemporary readers of English Renaissance poetry appear to delight
themselves in the sonnet collections and other shorter poems which thus
would enable their readers to appreciate the spark of genius of their authors
in very little time, though I would assume as well that they may also consider
several of the great poetic achievements of the late Tudor period as rather
cumbersome. Cumbersome because in most cases their frequent overwhelming extension hinders the possibility of reading them in just one quiet afternoon or in a dark and stormy night. Caveat emptor & co.

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Protestant Thinker

The study inquires into the dynamic relationship
between Protestantism and culture in The Faerie Oueene. The
American Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr makes
penetrating analyses of the relationship between man's
cultural potentials and the insights of Protestant
Christianity which greatly illuminate how Spenser searches
for a comprehensive religious, ethical, political, and
social vision for the Christian community of Protestant
England. But Spenser maintains the tension between culture
and Christianity to the end, refusing to offer a merely
coherent system of principles based on the doctrine of
Christianity.

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