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