The Living Chaucer.

Author/Editor
Shelley, Percy V. C.

Title
The Living Chaucer.

Published
Shelley, Percy V. C. The Living Chaucer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1940, pp. 11, 25, 92, 169, 170, 175, 184, 185, 268, 302.

Review
Gower was a moralist and a reformer, unlike Chaucer, who kept his poetry “above” moral indignation; compares Gower’s “Tale of Lucrece” to Chaucer’s versions the “Legend of Good Women”; argues that LGW was written prior to CA; compares the use of Ovid by Gower and Chaucer; says Gower’s poetry “plods.” [RFY1981]

Date
1940

Gower Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Confessio Amantis