Chaucer and the Common People.
- Author/Editor
- Patch, Howard R.
- Title
- Chaucer and the Common People.
- Published
- Patch, Howard R. "Chaucer and the Common People." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 29 (1930): 376-84.
- Review
- Attempts to discover if Chaucer cared about the evil plight of commons in late fourteenth-century England; uses various passages from CA and MO for comparison and background, after arguing Gower was demonstrably concerned about the fate of the people. [RFY1981]
- Date
- 1930
- Gower Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Mirour de l'Omme (Speculum Meditantis)
Confessio Amantis