The World and Heart of Thomas Usk.

Author/Editor
Medcalf, Stephen.

Title
The World and Heart of Thomas Usk.

Published
Minnis, A. J., Charlotte Morse, and Thorlac Turville-Petre, eds. "Essays on Ricardian Literature in Honour of J.A. Burrow." Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. 222-53.

Review
Medcalf cites Venus' instruction in Confessio Amantis 8.2955* that Chaucer write his own "testament of love" as "the only probable evidence of a contemporary's having read" Usk's poem of that name. [PN. Copyright The John Gower Society. JGN 20.1]

Date
1997

Gower Subjects
Confessio Amantis
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations