Chaucer and Gower as Storytellers.

Author/Editor
Ito, Masayoshi.

Title
Chaucer and Gower as Storytellers.

Published
Ito, Masayoshi. "Chaucer and Gower as Storytellers." Bunka (Tohoku University): 24 (1960): 29-48. Reprinted in Takero Oiji, ed. Chaucer to sono shuben (Toyko: Kenkysha, 1968, chapter 5. English version available in Ito's John Gower, The Medieval Poet (Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin, 1976), pp. 39-59.

Review
Gower is more formally skillful than Chaucer, but Chaucer's versions of the tales they tell in common are never monotonous, and richer in detail. In Japanese; English abstract. [RFY1981; rev. MA].

Date
1960

Gower Subjects
Style, Rhetoric, and Versification
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations