Dream Visions and Other Poems

ThisNortonCriticalEditionpresentsChaucer’sfourdreamvisionsandselectedshorterpoemsandissuitableforbothbeginningandadvancedstudents.Thetextsareextensivelyglossedandareaccompaniedbyindividualintroductionsandexplanatoryannotations.Alightlyregularizedsystemofspellingshasbeenadopted.NopriorknowledgeofChaucerisassumed.“Contexts”connectsthepoemstotheirclassicalandmedievalfoundationsandincludesworksbyVirgil,Ovid,Cicero,Boethius,Dante,andBoccaccio,amongothers.Fromthewealthofscholarlyworkavailable,theeditorhaschosenfor“Criticism”sixessaysthataddressthepoems’centralthemes.ContributorsincludeCharlesMuscatine,A.C.Spearing,R.T.Lenaghan,RichardFirthGreen,ElaineTuttleHansen,andStevenKruger.AChronologyandSelectedBibliographyarealsoincluded.