... including '"'The House of Fame'"', '"'The Parliament of Fowls'"', '"'Troylus and Cryseyde'"', and '"'The Legend of Good Women'"', and his mature period (1386-1400), from which The Canterbury Tales date. Of Chaucer"'"s works The Canterbury Tales are by far the best-known, probably first conceived in 1386. Chaucer was the first author to write in what was a recognisable English language. He wrote in the ... Chanticleer"'"s dream can be defined as a visio, a practical, direct, literal pre-vision of the future. Macrobius"'"s commentary on Cicero"'"s Somnium Scipionis is said to have had a gr...

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