John Gower, John Barleycorn, and William Langland
- Author/Editor
- Regan, Charles L.
- Title
- John Gower, John Barleycorn, and William Langland
- Published
- Regan, Charles L. "John Gower, John Barleycorn, and William Langland." American Notes and Queries 16 (1978), p. 102.
- Review
- Gower's description of the drunkard in Book 6 of the CA includes the detail that when the drunkard wakes up in the morning he says "Nou baillez ça the cuppe" (6.60). In the A-text of Piers Plowman we find a "striking correspondence: on waking, "the furste word that he [Glotoun] spac was 'wher is the cuppe?'" (102; qtd from Passus 5.213). The only difference is the insertion of the French words, which Gower, "like other Englishmen" (102), perhaps found suitable for a drunkard. [CvD]
- Date
- 1978
- Gower Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Confessio Amantis