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ENGLISH LITERATURE Team Number 1
Date of birth: 1343 in Londres,England. Death: October 25th., 1940,England. Nationality: English Ocupation: writer,philosoper and English poet. He is consider one of the most famous poet in the middle Ages. He was the first poet to be buried in Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.
Famous works The book of the Duchess House of fame The legend of Good women The Troilus and criseyde He is well known as the author of the Canterbury Tales Chaucer was a crucial figure in developing the legitimacy of the vernacular, Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin.
Roman de la Rose • The “Roman de la Rose” is a poem of about 22,000 octosyllabic that takes the form of allegorical dream. • Although consists of two parts, which were written at different times.
• The best-seller
first part by Guillaume de Loris
• The first part of the poem was written by Guillaume of Lorris, which consists for 4.058 octosyllabic. • It was elaborated between 1225 and 1240.
Second part The play was interrupted for the early death of Guillaume of Lorris, was continued by Jean de Meung with 17.722 verses between 1275 and 1280.
Jean de Meung
The Book of the Duchess The Book of the Duchess, also known as The Deth of Blaunche is the earliest of Chaucer's major poems, preceded only by his short poem, "An ABC," and possibly by his translation of The Romaunt of the Rose. Most sources put the date of composition after 12 September 1368.
Overwhelming (if disputed) evidence suggests that Chaucer wrote the poem to commemorate the death of Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt.
At the beginning of the poem, the sleepless poet lies in bed, reading a book. A collection of old stories, the book tells the story of Ceyx and Alcyone. The story tells of how Ceyx lost his life at sea, and how Alcyone, his wife, mourned his absence. Unsure of his fate, she prays to the goddess Juno to send her a dream vision. Juno sends a messenger to Morpheus to bring the body of Ceyx with a message to Alcyone.
The messenger finds Morpheus and relays Juno's orders. Morpheus finds the drowned Ceyx and bears him to Alcyone three hours before dawn. The deceased Ceyx instructs Alcyone to bury him and to cease her sorrow, and when Alcyone opens her eyes Ceyx has gone.
The poet stops relaying the story of Ceyx and Alcyone and reflects that he wished that he had a god such as Juno or Morpheus so that he could sleep like Alcyone and describes the lavish bed he would gift to Morpheus should he discover his location.
Lost in the book and his thoughts, the poet suddenly falls asleep with the book in his hands. He states that his dream is so full of wonder that no man may interpret it correctly. He begins to relay his dream.
THE CANTERBURY TALES
The tales were written in the late fourteenth century . The Canterbury Tales is one of the most important works of English literature, and perhaps the best work of the Middle Ages in England. It was the last work of Geoffrey Chaucer. The version of the work that prevails today comes from two different English manuscripts: the Ellesmere and Hengwrt manuscripts. The stories written in Middle English (some original, some not, two written in prose and the rest in verse), are contained in a larger narrative and are narrated by a group of pilgrims traveling from Southwark to Canterbury to visit temple of Saint Thomas Becket at the cathedral Canterbury.
THE CANTERBURY CHURCH
The work becomes interesting both to his contemporaries as currently, it was the first literary work written in English; Chaucer wrote before only in French or Latin, because just people in a higher cultural level could understand. Chaucer began writing the Canterbury Tales in the 1380s, but left them at the end of the next decade. It is likely that Chaucer did not have a fixed structure in writing the work, as this seems to have been revised several times.
The structure of "tales content” 'in The Canterbury Tales is easily found in other works of the period, as the Book of good love of the Archpriest of Hita, Juan Manuel and Boccaccio's Decameron., Which can have been the main source of inspiration for Chaucer.
Troilus and criseyde
Troilus and criseyde Troilus and Criseyde is a poem which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war in the Siege of Troy.
It was composed using rime royale and probably completed during the mid 1380s. Many Chaucer scholars regard it as the poet's finest work. As a finished long poem it is certainly more selfcontained than the better known but ultimately uncompleted Canterbury Tales.
The Legend of Good Women
The Legend of Good Women The Legend of Good Women is a poem in the form of a dream vision 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.
In The Parliament of Fowls, Chaucer tells us, on Saint Valentine’s Day, the vision he has as a court poet, about nature, when each bird was there to choose his partner. I quote some of the most known verses from The Parliament of Fowls*: Life is so short, profession so long to learn, attempt so difficult, victory so tough, the terrible joy so hard to obtain, all that ing by so quickly—that is, what I call Love – since his wonders in this stage of the world confounds so much that, when thinking about, I scarcely know if I sink or swim.
CHAUCEER´S TRANSLATION OF BOETHIUS ´S CONSOLIDATION OF PHILOSOPHY. Consolation of Philosophy is a work written by Boethius in latin, during the last years of his life. This books were written in prison while Boethius awaiting his trial and subsequent execution. He divided his work into five books: Book One: Boethius explains his sadness, and philosophy, which explains that man has forgotten its true purpose is presented. Book Two: Speaking of fortune and property (real or fictitious) that this entails. Book Three: Explain that the fortunes of men is not small goods and individuals, but in God, the Supreme Being. Book Four: why God despite there is evil in the world. Book Five: Discuss the human will in relation to God's omnipresence.
The House of Fame
• The House of Fame is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer, probably written between 1379 and 1380, making it one of his earlier works. • The House of Fame is over 2,000 lines long in three books and takes the form of a dream vision composed in octosyllabic couplets. Upon falling asleep the poet finds himself in a glass temple adorned with images of the famous and their deeds. With an eagle as a guide, he meditates on the nature of fame and the trustworthiness of recorded renown.
• The poem contains the earliest known uses in the English language of the galaxy and Milky Way: • • • •
"See yonder, lo, the Galaxyë Which men clepeth the Milky Wey, For hit is whyt." —Geoffrey Chaucer The House of Fame,
Anelida and Arcite • Anelida and Arcite is a 357-line English poem by Geoffrey Chaucer. It tells the story of Anelida, queen of Armenia and her wooing by false Arcite from Thebes, Greece. • Although relatively short[dubious – discuss], it is a poem with a complex structure, with an invocation and then the main story. The story is made up of an introduction and a complaint by Anelida which is in turn made up of a proem, a strophe, antistrophe and a conclusion. • Like many of Chaucer's works it ends abruptly, and may be unfinished.
It is a medieval instruction manual on the astrolabe by Geoffrey Chaucer. It is notable for being written in prose, in English and for describing a scientific instrument. It is considered the "oldest work in English written upon an elaborate scientific instrument". It is ired for its clarity in explaining difficult concepts—although modern readers lacking an actual astolabe may find the details of the astrolabe difficult to understand.
The astrolabe was a sophisticated precision instrument. With it one could determine the date, time (when the sky was clear), the position of stars, the age of the zodiac, latitude on the earth's surface, tides and basic surveying. Care must be taken not to dismiss the astrological aspects; as well as any mystical interpretation astrological terminology was used for what today would be recognized as astronomy. Determining when the sun entered a house (or sign) of the zodiac was a precise determination of the calendar.
Chaucer's introduction to the work lays out his planned structure: • A description of the astrolabe • A rudimentary course in using the instrument • Various tables of longitudes, latitudes, declinations, etc. • A "theorike" (theory) of the motion of the celestial bodies, in particular a table showing the "very moving of the moon" • An introduction to the broader field of "astrologie," a word which at the time referred to the entire span of what we now divide into astrology and astronomy.
Little child Lewis, my son, I have perceived well by certain evidence your ability to learn science touching numbers and proportions. And I also consider your request in particular to learn the treatise of the astrolabe. And for as much as a philosopher says "he wraps himself in his friend that condescends to the request of his friend", therefore have I given you an astrolabe sufficient for our location, calibrated to the latitude of Oxford, upon which is the text of this little treatise.
REFERENCES • http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/library_exhibitions/schoolre sources/astrolabe/chaucer • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer • Chaucer, Geoffrey. "Troilus and Criseyde." The Online Medieval and Classical Library. Roy Tennant, March 1995. Web. 5 May 2010. • Troilus and Criseyde, UK: BBC. • Citation. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Legend of Lood Women. NeCastro, Gerard, ed. and trans. eChaucer: http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/chaucer • http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_cuentos_de_Canterbury
Date of birth: 1343 in Londres,England. Death: October 25th., 1940,England. Nationality: English Ocupation: writer,philosoper and English poet. He is consider one of the most famous poet in the middle Ages. He was the first poet to be buried in Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.
Famous works The book of the Duchess House of fame The legend of Good women The Troilus and criseyde He is well known as the author of the Canterbury Tales Chaucer was a crucial figure in developing the legitimacy of the vernacular, Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin.
Roman de la Rose • The “Roman de la Rose” is a poem of about 22,000 octosyllabic that takes the form of allegorical dream. • Although consists of two parts, which were written at different times.
• The best-seller
first part by Guillaume de Loris
• The first part of the poem was written by Guillaume of Lorris, which consists for 4.058 octosyllabic. • It was elaborated between 1225 and 1240.
Second part The play was interrupted for the early death of Guillaume of Lorris, was continued by Jean de Meung with 17.722 verses between 1275 and 1280.
Jean de Meung
The Book of the Duchess The Book of the Duchess, also known as The Deth of Blaunche is the earliest of Chaucer's major poems, preceded only by his short poem, "An ABC," and possibly by his translation of The Romaunt of the Rose. Most sources put the date of composition after 12 September 1368.
Overwhelming (if disputed) evidence suggests that Chaucer wrote the poem to commemorate the death of Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt.
At the beginning of the poem, the sleepless poet lies in bed, reading a book. A collection of old stories, the book tells the story of Ceyx and Alcyone. The story tells of how Ceyx lost his life at sea, and how Alcyone, his wife, mourned his absence. Unsure of his fate, she prays to the goddess Juno to send her a dream vision. Juno sends a messenger to Morpheus to bring the body of Ceyx with a message to Alcyone.
The messenger finds Morpheus and relays Juno's orders. Morpheus finds the drowned Ceyx and bears him to Alcyone three hours before dawn. The deceased Ceyx instructs Alcyone to bury him and to cease her sorrow, and when Alcyone opens her eyes Ceyx has gone.
The poet stops relaying the story of Ceyx and Alcyone and reflects that he wished that he had a god such as Juno or Morpheus so that he could sleep like Alcyone and describes the lavish bed he would gift to Morpheus should he discover his location.
Lost in the book and his thoughts, the poet suddenly falls asleep with the book in his hands. He states that his dream is so full of wonder that no man may interpret it correctly. He begins to relay his dream.
THE CANTERBURY TALES
The tales were written in the late fourteenth century . The Canterbury Tales is one of the most important works of English literature, and perhaps the best work of the Middle Ages in England. It was the last work of Geoffrey Chaucer. The version of the work that prevails today comes from two different English manuscripts: the Ellesmere and Hengwrt manuscripts. The stories written in Middle English (some original, some not, two written in prose and the rest in verse), are contained in a larger narrative and are narrated by a group of pilgrims traveling from Southwark to Canterbury to visit temple of Saint Thomas Becket at the cathedral Canterbury.
THE CANTERBURY CHURCH
The work becomes interesting both to his contemporaries as currently, it was the first literary work written in English; Chaucer wrote before only in French or Latin, because just people in a higher cultural level could understand. Chaucer began writing the Canterbury Tales in the 1380s, but left them at the end of the next decade. It is likely that Chaucer did not have a fixed structure in writing the work, as this seems to have been revised several times.
The structure of "tales content” 'in The Canterbury Tales is easily found in other works of the period, as the Book of good love of the Archpriest of Hita, Juan Manuel and Boccaccio's Decameron., Which can have been the main source of inspiration for Chaucer.
Troilus and criseyde
Troilus and criseyde Troilus and Criseyde is a poem which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war in the Siege of Troy.
It was composed using rime royale and probably completed during the mid 1380s. Many Chaucer scholars regard it as the poet's finest work. As a finished long poem it is certainly more selfcontained than the better known but ultimately uncompleted Canterbury Tales.
The Legend of Good Women
The Legend of Good Women The Legend of Good Women is a poem in the form of a dream vision 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.
In The Parliament of Fowls, Chaucer tells us, on Saint Valentine’s Day, the vision he has as a court poet, about nature, when each bird was there to choose his partner. I quote some of the most known verses from The Parliament of Fowls*: Life is so short, profession so long to learn, attempt so difficult, victory so tough, the terrible joy so hard to obtain, all that ing by so quickly—that is, what I call Love – since his wonders in this stage of the world confounds so much that, when thinking about, I scarcely know if I sink or swim.
CHAUCEER´S TRANSLATION OF BOETHIUS ´S CONSOLIDATION OF PHILOSOPHY. Consolation of Philosophy is a work written by Boethius in latin, during the last years of his life. This books were written in prison while Boethius awaiting his trial and subsequent execution. He divided his work into five books: Book One: Boethius explains his sadness, and philosophy, which explains that man has forgotten its true purpose is presented. Book Two: Speaking of fortune and property (real or fictitious) that this entails. Book Three: Explain that the fortunes of men is not small goods and individuals, but in God, the Supreme Being. Book Four: why God despite there is evil in the world. Book Five: Discuss the human will in relation to God's omnipresence.
The House of Fame
• The House of Fame is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer, probably written between 1379 and 1380, making it one of his earlier works. • The House of Fame is over 2,000 lines long in three books and takes the form of a dream vision composed in octosyllabic couplets. Upon falling asleep the poet finds himself in a glass temple adorned with images of the famous and their deeds. With an eagle as a guide, he meditates on the nature of fame and the trustworthiness of recorded renown.
• The poem contains the earliest known uses in the English language of the galaxy and Milky Way: • • • •
"See yonder, lo, the Galaxyë Which men clepeth the Milky Wey, For hit is whyt." —Geoffrey Chaucer The House of Fame,
Anelida and Arcite • Anelida and Arcite is a 357-line English poem by Geoffrey Chaucer. It tells the story of Anelida, queen of Armenia and her wooing by false Arcite from Thebes, Greece. • Although relatively short[dubious – discuss], it is a poem with a complex structure, with an invocation and then the main story. The story is made up of an introduction and a complaint by Anelida which is in turn made up of a proem, a strophe, antistrophe and a conclusion. • Like many of Chaucer's works it ends abruptly, and may be unfinished.
It is a medieval instruction manual on the astrolabe by Geoffrey Chaucer. It is notable for being written in prose, in English and for describing a scientific instrument. It is considered the "oldest work in English written upon an elaborate scientific instrument". It is ired for its clarity in explaining difficult concepts—although modern readers lacking an actual astolabe may find the details of the astrolabe difficult to understand.
The astrolabe was a sophisticated precision instrument. With it one could determine the date, time (when the sky was clear), the position of stars, the age of the zodiac, latitude on the earth's surface, tides and basic surveying. Care must be taken not to dismiss the astrological aspects; as well as any mystical interpretation astrological terminology was used for what today would be recognized as astronomy. Determining when the sun entered a house (or sign) of the zodiac was a precise determination of the calendar.
Chaucer's introduction to the work lays out his planned structure: • A description of the astrolabe • A rudimentary course in using the instrument • Various tables of longitudes, latitudes, declinations, etc. • A "theorike" (theory) of the motion of the celestial bodies, in particular a table showing the "very moving of the moon" • An introduction to the broader field of "astrologie," a word which at the time referred to the entire span of what we now divide into astrology and astronomy.
Little child Lewis, my son, I have perceived well by certain evidence your ability to learn science touching numbers and proportions. And I also consider your request in particular to learn the treatise of the astrolabe. And for as much as a philosopher says "he wraps himself in his friend that condescends to the request of his friend", therefore have I given you an astrolabe sufficient for our location, calibrated to the latitude of Oxford, upon which is the text of this little treatise.
REFERENCES • http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/library_exhibitions/schoolre sources/astrolabe/chaucer • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer • Chaucer, Geoffrey. "Troilus and Criseyde." The Online Medieval and Classical Library. Roy Tennant, March 1995. Web. 5 May 2010. • Troilus and Criseyde, UK: BBC. • Citation. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Legend of Lood Women. NeCastro, Gerard, ed. and trans. eChaucer: http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/chaucer • http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_cuentos_de_Canterbury
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