Lust and Lore in Gower and Chaucer.
- Author/Editor
- Shaw, Judith Davis
- Title
- Lust and Lore in Gower and Chaucer.
- Published
- Shaw, Judith Davis. "Lust and Lore in Gower and Chaucer." Chaucer Review 19 (1984), pp. 110-122. ISSN 0009-2002
- Review
- Although Gower speaks of it, both he and Chaucer in fact practice the "middel weie" of writing; but, while Chaucer seems to adopt a center style because he "meanders" between extremes, Gower has his sights firmly on his goal, and claims the plain style and subject-matter purposefully. [PN. Copyright the John Gower Society. JGN 4.2]
- Date
- 1984
- Gower Subjects
- Style, Rhetoric, and Versification