SOURCE: Kelly, Douglas. “Guillaume de Machaut and the Sublimation of Courtly Love in Imagination.” In Medieval Imagination: Rhetoric and the Poetry of Courtly Love, pp. 121-54. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978.

In the following essay, Kelly analyzes Machaut's conception of love, observing that the poet's meticulous definition of love draws from classical and medieval literature.

          and yet thei spake hem so, And spedde as wel in love as men now do; Ek for to wynnen love in sondry ages, In sondry londes, sondry ben usages 

—Chaucer¹

Ici a commencé pour moi ce que j'appellerai l'épanchement du songe dans la vie réelle

—Nerval, Aurélia

The Remede De Fortune and the Roman De La Rose

There are some incidental similarities between the Remede de Fortune and Guillaume de Lorris' Rose, similarities in structure and pattern characteristic of many dream visions in the late Middle Ages.² The poems...