Love VisionsBy: Geoffrey Chaucer Spanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of 'love visions' poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly love. In The Book of the Duchess, the most traditional of the four, the dreamer meets a widower who has loved and lost the perfect lady, and The House of Fame describes a dream journey in which the poet meets with classical divinities.