An edition of The legend of good women (1889)

The Legend of Good Women

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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
300

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Cover of: The Legend of Good Women
The Legend of Good Women
July 18, 2005, Adamant Media Corporation
Paperback in English
Cover of: The legend of good women
The legend of good women
1995, Colleagues Press, Michigan State University Press
in English
Cover of: The legend of good women
The legend of good women
1987, Rice University Press
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: The legend of good women
The legend of good women
1889, Clarendon Press

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
300
Dimensions
8.2 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
Weight
14.9 ounces

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OL9541280M
ISBN 10
0543854302
ISBN 13
9780543854308
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3044257

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April 30, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from amazon.com record.