Mother Nature VS God
If I'm going to be honest, Anne Bradstreet is the most interesting writer that I have come upon so far. When she and her family traveled...
And Margaret Does It Again!
Margaret Cavendish is a writer like none we have seen yet. Not only is she a very popular woman writer, who consistently wrote under her...
Death, Death, and More Death
Coming out of all the tragedies that Mary Sidney Herbert went through, it only makes sense for her to go to writing and translating as an...
Queens and Their Poems
Queen Elizabeth is an interesting person, as well as writer. Elizabeth had an incredible education, a thorough understanding of...
Petrarch the Sad
If Petrarch had been a king, he would've been Petrarch the Sad. The three poems we read were solely about a beauty and love so great that...
The Manipulative and the Powerful
The Wife of Bath had a tale like no other. After being widowed five times I think it is completely valid for her to have a label of "the...
The Game of Chivalry
Something I noticed in Chaucer's The Franklin's Tale is an actual explanation of the supernatural element to the medieval romance story....
From Marie de France to Geoffrey Chaucer
Automatically there are some major difference from the lai's we have read to the story that Chaucer is telling. There is a complete and...
Chevrefoil/Honeysuckle/ Goatleaf
There are not many complaints that I have regarding Chevrefoil, but the ending of the lai threw me off a bit. When the King's nephew,...
Three Deaths and a Castration. What Could be Better...?
Even though the lai of Chaitivel is primarily a story of noble knights and battles I actually focused on the ideals that the lady within...
