ENGB27H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser, Geoffrey Chaucer
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French is the language of the court; latin the language of the church; english a lesser language. Rhyme used more often than alliterative meter. The english language used at court and in church; english poetry becomes more prestigious. Church of england introduces protestantism, poetry responds. New literary forms come from italy (sonnet); milton uses blank verse. How non-christians may have thought of creation. Also thinks about people in a community. Also thinks about people isolated from community. Poet is willing to take on perspectives other than its own. Poet is a mediating voice to meditate on the death of christ. Poet-speaker is personified as a heroic epic much like beowulf. Meditates epic non-christian form of stories to christian values. Text let us be who we are that we are noble people. Shows who we are rather than expressing who we are. Noble men show that they are noble. Geoffrey chaucer, the pardo(cid:374)er"s prologue a(cid:374)d tale (41-46)
