An edition of The legend of good women (1889)

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An edition of The legend of good women (1889)

The legend of good women

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The Legend of Good Women is a poem in the form of a dream vision by Geoffrey Chaucer.

The poem is the third longest of Chaucer's works, after The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, and is possibly the first significant work in English to use the iambic pentameter or decasyllabic couplets which he later used throughout The Canterbury Tales. This form of the heroic couplet would become a significant part of English literature no doubt inspired by Chaucer.

The prologue describes how Chaucer is reprimanded by the god of love and his queen, Alceste, for his works—such as Troilus and Criseyde—depicting women in a poor light. Criseyde is made to seem inconstant in love in that earlier work, and Alceste demands a poem of Chaucer extolling the virtues of women and their good deeds.

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English
Pages
179

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Cover of: The legend of good women
The legend of good women
1995, Colleagues Press, Michigan State University Press
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Cover of: The legend of good women
The legend of good women
1987, Rice University Press
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The legend of good women
1889, Clarendon Press

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Houston, Tex

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. [163]-173.
Includes index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
821/.1
Library of Congress
PR1881 .A2 1987, PR1881. A2 1987

The Physical Object

Pagination
179 p. :
Number of pages
179

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2743297M
Internet Archive
legendofgoodwome0000chau
ISBN 10
0892632615, 089263264X
LCCN
86060780
OCLC/WorldCat
14718944
Library Thing
388700
Goodreads
4527530

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