Romantic love

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Often appears with: wedding feast · marriage and betrothal · lost happiness after awakening · isle of pleasure · fate, destiny, and necessity · fable, romance, and storytelling · dream vision

Usually: narrative (1) · detachment (1) · wonder (1)

The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems primary

Geoffrey Chaucer · c. 1387–1400 (composition of The Canterbury Tales and included poems; some items likely earlier/later)
i.e. > i.e. make this distinction, for it is universally known that there is a great difference between things that seem the same, as I have learned. (12/23)

A dream-vision culminates in a wedding feast on the Isle of Pleasure, an embassy that brings back the poet’s mistress, and then waking to discover only tapestry images of the very bliss he sought.

as the knight, Unto perfect joy and heal, That *floating they were in such weal* *swimming in such As folk that woulden in no wise happiness* Desire more perfect paradise. On the morrow a general assembly was convoked, and it was resolved that the wedding feast should be celebrated within the island. Messengers were sent to strange realms, to invite kings, queens, duchesses, and princesses; and a special embassy was…