In this quantity, Professor Bronson is essentially attracted to the 3 worlds which seem in Chaucer's poetry: the dream global; the area of the mundane lifestyles and waking remark; and the realm of imagined existence via interpreting. A learn of those worlds increases questions on the type of fact which is living in every one, the literary values that are extracted from them, their essentail relation to each other, and the perennial challenge of visual appeal and reality.

Professor Bronson can also be fascinated about the overall serious method of Chaucer's writings. He feels that many contemporary Chaucerian students were misled by means of their software of serious disciplines nourished at the metaphysical poets to a poet who intentionally practised a method in a position to being through a reasonably attentive ear. the truth that Chaucer's poetry was once composed for oral supply has acquired not more than lip provider from critics; but Chaucer's relation to his viewers is clearly of the best significance in knowing his poems. It behooves us, hence, to elucidate our suggestions as to the type of thoughts we may possibly fittingly follow. Professor Bronson means that a much less subtle manner of taking a look at the topic may perhaps yield higher results.

Professor Bronson's e-book is a kind of advent to this new view of Chaucer; it isn't an entire advisor yet an explanatory stopover at to every sphere of Chaucer's international, skilfully evocative of the folk of the dream legends, the pilgrimage, the literary heroes and heroines of the center a long time, whom Chaucer introduced into his poetry.

This e-book is embellished with drawings within the demeanour of woodcuts taken from the 3 worlds of Chaucer's poetry.

The Alexander Lectures for 1958-59.