From Trevet to Gower and Chaucer.
- Author/Editor
- Dauby, Hélène.
- Title
- From Trevet to Gower and Chaucer.
- Published
- Dauby, Hélène. "From Trevet to Gower and Chaucer." Anglophonia: French Journal of English Studies 29 (2011): 79-88.
- Review
- Dauby seeks to "approach the art of Chaucer and Gower by comparing their adaptations of some textual points of [Nicholas] Trevet," from the "Man of Laws' Tale" and "The Tale of Florent," leaving aside "the question of factual differences or the . . . possible influence of one poet on the other" (80). Her focus is on proper names and titles; her conclusion is that "Gower follows Trevet faithfully…even to the point of monotony. Chaucer, on the contrary, does not hesitate to intervene and comment on both the story and the craft of narration" (83). She supports this with five pages of three-columned, comparative charts with examples from Trevet on the left, Chaucer in the middle, and Gower on the right (83-88). [RFY. Copyright. The John Gower Society eJGN 40.1]
- Date
- 2011
- Gower Subjects
- Confessio Amantis
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