The Book of Duchess is a poem by Chaucer from 1368, written upon the death of Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster. It is a dream vision where the narrator encounters a mourning knight and hears the story of his love and his lady's death.
The Book of Duchess est un poème de Chaucer de 1368, écrit à la mort de Blanche, duchesse de Lancaster. C'est une vision de rêve où le narrateur rencontre un chevalier en deuil et entend l'histoire de son amour et de la mort de sa dame.
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| Back | poem Chaucer 1368 on the death of Blanche, duchess of Lancaster , the first wife of John of Gaunt dream vision unable to sleep because of some sickness or depression , the narrator reads a truncated version of Ovid 's story of Ceyx and Alcyone. he tells the story which ends before the metamorphosis and prays to Morpheus he falls asleep and narrates a dream in which he first watches and then wanders away from the hunt of the emperor Octivian and comes upon a knight in black lamenting the latter describes his love for the lady white and his life with her, and tells the dreamer at first in a metaphor but finally explicitly of her death,. at this point the dream ends and the narrator awakes determines to write the poem |
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