ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book looks at Chaucer in relation to the best known of his contemporaries. The Chaucerian tradition in fifteenth-century England consisted far too often of an exaggeration of his metre and diction, especially in the love-allegories. Only Chaucer seems to need bedside reading to put him to sleep. The Dreamer of Piers Plozvman drops off quickly, at the sound of a stream burbling or in the middle of the church service. Love in Chaucer ranges from the ascetic’s love of God, as in The Second Nun’s Tale or TheMan of Law’s Tale, to the frank sensuahty of Allson and Nicholas in The Miller’s Tale or the Miller’s wife and daughter in The Reeve’s Tale who happy accept whatever lover fortune may send them.
