Dream Visions and Other Poems (Norton Critical Editions) [Paperback]

Geoffrey Chaucer (Author), Kathyrn L. Lynch (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 13, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0393925889 | ISBN-13: 978-0393925883

This Norton Critical Edition presents Chaucer’s four dream visions and selected shorter poems and is suitable for both beginning and advanced students.

The texts are extensively glossed and are accompanied by individual introductions and explanatory annotations. A lightly regularized system of spellings has been adopted. No prior knowledge of Chaucer is assumed.

“Contexts” connects the poems to their classical and medieval foundations and includes works by Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Boethius, Dante, and Boccaccio, among others.

From the wealth of scholarly work available, the editor has chosen for “Criticism” six essays that address the poems’ central themes. Contributors include Charles Muscatine, A. C. Spearing, R. T. Lenaghan, Richard Firth Green, Elaine Tuttle Hansen, and Steven Kruger.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

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About the Author

Kathryn L. Lynch is Katharine Lee Bates and Sophie Chantal Hart Professor of English at Wellesley College. She is the author of The High Medieval Dream Vision: Poetry, Philosophy, and Literary Form and Chaucer’s Philosophical Dream Visions and editor of Chaucer’s Cultural Geography. Her articles have appeared in, among other publications, The Chaucer Review, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, and Speculum.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (December 13, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393925889
• ISBN-13: 978-0393925883
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb edition--new standard ed. for Chaucer's dream visions, May 25, 2007

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This review is from: Dream Visions and Other Poems (Norton Critical Editions) (Paperback)

Besides the excellent, scrupulously edited texts and Lynch's thorough notes and rich-though-brief introductions, this new edition contains a concise and incredibly useful guide to Chaucer's pronunciation that is alone worth the price of the book. The best edition for the undergraduate or professional scholar.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Always a pleasure, January 30, 2012

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I love shopping with Amazon. This was among my required texts for school. It was priced well and arrived about two days before the estimated arrival date. The text is challenging but the supplemental essays and annotations are clear and gives great insight to understanding the work of Chaucer.

5 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Drean Visions and Other Poems (Norton Critical Edition), January 14, 2007

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Though it says 'A lightly modernized system of spellings has been adopted.', it is a bit too much modernization in spelling, it seems to me.
Criticism is very useful. After all, this is for the novice.