The Chaucer Tradition.
- Author/Editor
- Brusendorff, Aage.
- Title
- The Chaucer Tradition.
- Published
- Brusendorff, Aage. The Chaucer Tradition. London: Oxford University Press, 1925, pp. 56-57n., 204-05, 235n, 268n3.
- Review
- Asserts that one scribe, not twenty-one as conjectured by Macaulay (1899-1902), was involved in producing the major Gower manuscripts; argues that CA, V, 7735-42, inspired Chaucer's poem "Truth"; accepts Max Förster's argument (1899) that the "Balade Moral" was rightly attributed to Gower by John Shirley in MS Ashmolean 59; and claims that in CA, V, 698-706, Gower made a "modern moral" of the material of Chaucer's "Brooch of Thebes," a poem Gower "almost certainly knew." [RFY1981; rev. MA].
- Date
- 1925
- Gower Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Influence and Later Allusion