An edition of The legend of good women (1889)

The legend of good women

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The legend of good women
Geoffrey Chaucer
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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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Publisher
Clarendon press
Language
English
Pages
229

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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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The legend of good women
1987, Rice University Press
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Cover of: The legend of good women
The legend of good women
1889, Clarendon press
in English
Cover of: The legend of good women
The legend of good women
1889, Clarendon Press

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Oxford

Edition Notes

Series
Clarendon press series. Chaucer
Genre
Poetry.

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR1881 .S5

The Physical Object

Pagination
liv p., 1 l., 229 p.
Number of pages
229

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6550149M
LCCN
12031323
OCLC/WorldCat
2177607

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