Chaucer and the Roman Poets.

Author/Editor
Shannon, Edgar Finley.

Title
Chaucer and the Roman Poets.

Published
Shannon, Edgar Finley. Chaucer and the Roman Poets. Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature, VII. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1929, pp. 170, 382

Review
Gower's mentions of Troilus in CA (I, 2794-97; V, 7597-602; VII, 2531-35) show that Chaucer's poem is popular. Gower, like, Langland, did not "Bask in court favor, nor venture upon the perilous paths of undisguised realism." [RFY1981].

Date
1929

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