John Gowers Beziehungen zu Chaucer und König Richard II.
- Author/Editor
- Meyer, Karl.
- Title
- John Gowers Beziehungen zu Chaucer und König Richard II.
- Published
- Meyer, Karl. John Gowers Beziehungen zu Chaucer und König Richard II. Bonn, 1889, pp. 3-6, 47-71.
- Review
- Studies relations between Chaucer and Gower, with an attempt to determine extent and nature of mutual influence. Also provides detailed descriptions of Gower manuscripts, classified according to whereabouts. Prints the following: (on pp. 10-12) selections from CA VIII 2938-70, 3106-70, and the full Latin conclusion (from MS. Fairfax 3), and VIII 2938*-70* and the Latin conclusion through "Britannis" (from Bodley 693); (on pp. 67-68) from "Rex coeli Deus," 1-25, 31-48, 32-33 (in parallel texts from MSS. Digby 137 and Cotton Tiberius A IV); and (on p. 72) the "Balade moral of gode counseyle made by Gower" (in parallel texts from MS. Ashmole 59--where John Shirley gives it this title--and Rawlinson 86. Meyer (p. 71) neither affirms nor denies Shirley's attribution of the ballade to Gower, but reports that the manuscript catalog at Oxford suggests that it influenced Chaucer's "Truth." [RFY1981; rev. MA].
- Date
- 1889
- Gower Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Influence and Later Allusion
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Editions and Translations