Confessio Amantis

John Gower Born on 1330, Kent, United Kingdom, John Gower was an English poet who was friends with Chaucer and the connection between him influence his writings during his era. John Gower writings during the 16th century began to diminished ever since he is interest was picking up, but in the 20th century many people see how insight his poems are. The language that Gower expresses is seen as a Kentish Origin, his family who raised him came from a place called Yorkshire. And that it has been

In the beginning of the seventeenth century, more countries discovered new worlds and began to colonize those worlds. The English were no different. They started the new colony of Jamestown in the New World. For many different reasons people decided on leaving their homes and traveling across the sea, where a new land awaits them, was a good idea. Some were escaping their past life for one reason or another, while others were soul searching. Abraham explains: The story of Pericles with its tempests

In Alexander Denomy’s, “The Heresy of Courtly Love,” it is a This short lecture circulated 60 years ago offers an unquestionably Christian perspective on the marvel of courtly love, arguing that this notion of love separates ideals of love from Christianity. Though a primitive trope, Denomy is apprehensive with its permeation through centuries of works and in relationship beliefs through his time. Denomy forms several complications within courtly love that designates it as “immoral and heretical”

The middle ages The Middle Ages was from the end of the Fifth Century through 1485. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, the economy was in shambles and many towns were abandoned. After several centuries of Germanic invasion, new cultures and people emerged, developing into predatory kingdoms that competed for power. After a while, a great artistic culture flourished under the Anglo-Saxons, producers, epic poems, "Beowulf" and sophisticated metalwork. The middle Ages was a great era for artists

22. Altar Poem Also known as ‘Carmen Figuratum’ or ‘L shaped’ poem, or ‘hieroglyphic poem’. It refers to a poem in which the words, lines and characters, or stanzas are arranged in such a way that when looked carefully as a whole, readers see that they make a design on the page and take the shape of the subject of the poem. The shape can be of any type and depends upon the poet’s arrangement of lines. A notable example is THE ALTAR by GEORGE HERBERT. 23. Ambiguity Also ‘plurisignation’ deals with

The investigation into whether or not Geoffrey Chaucer was ahead of his time in terms of his views on feminism has been up for debate for hundreds of years. The Wife of Bath’s Prologue is just one solitary example of the complicated nature of Chaucer’s belief system. On the one hand, we have many strong female characters that despite still being extremely dependant on the men in their lives, know what they want out of life. From a contrasting point of view, readers see a group of men, including Chaucer

Romaunt of the Rose: It’s a lengthy allegorical poem written in octosyllabic couplets and based upon Le Romaunt de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung. According to critics, not the entire poem, but the first part of it may be written by Chaucer. In this dream poem the narrator enters the Garden of Mirth, where he sees various allegorized figures and falls in love with a rosebud. Part A and B describe the instructions of the god of love to the dreamer. Part C is a fragment and satirizes

The Seriousness of The Comedy of Errors        The Comedy of Errors has often been dismissed as a mere farce, unworthy of any serious attention. Yet, when the author is Shakespeare, even a "farce" is well worth a second look. Shakespeare himself may have takent his comedic work quite seriously, for audiences expected comedy of his day not only to entertain, but also to morally instruct. It is not surprising, therefore, that for one of his earliest comedies, Shakespeare found a model in the

Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales: The Parson’s Tale The critical acclaim for The Canterbury Tales as a whole is matched by the puzzlement over the work’s conclusion, the “Parson’s Tale” and Chaucer’s retraction. By modern standards, it hardly seems the “merry tale” the Parson promises his audience, and after the liveliness of much of the rest of the Tales, it appears to close the work not with a bang, but a whimper. However, this does not mean that the tale and retraction aren’t worthy

The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is unavoidably ambiguous. It can mean poetry written in England, or poetry written in the English language. The earliest surviving poetry was likely transmitted orally and then written down in versions that do