"Chaucer's Ghoast"' and Gower's "Confessio Amantis."
- Author/Editor
- Joshua, Essaka.
- Title
- "Chaucer's Ghoast"' and Gower's "Confessio Amantis."
- Published
- Joshua, Essaka. "'Chaucer's Ghoast' and Gower's 'Confessio Amantis.'" Notes and Queries 44 [242] (1997): 458-59.
- Review
- The obscure work "Chaucer's Ghoast" (full title: "Chaucer's Ghoast. Or, A Piece of Antiquity. Containing twelve pleasant Fables of Ovid penn'd after the ancient manner of writing in England Which makes them prove Mock-Poems to the present Poetry. With the History of Prince Corniger, and his Champion Sir Crucifrag that run a tilt likewise at the present Historiographers. By a Lover of Antiquity"), printed in 1672, contains twelve poems: eleven free-standing and the twelfth in a short prose piece. Of these, none are by Ovid nor by Chaucer, although all are rewritten to resemble Chaucer's style. In fact, eleven are by taken from the "Confessio Amantis," Prologue-Book V. [RFY. Copyright. John Gower Society. eJGN 42.2]
- Date
- 1997
- Gower Subjects
- Influence and Later Allusion
Confessio Amantis