The Prologue to the "Canterbury Tales’."

Author/Editor
Coghill, Nevill.

Title
The Prologue to the "Canterbury Tales’."

Published
Coghill, Nevill. “The Prologue to the ‘Canterbury Tales’.” In The Poet Chaucer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1949, pp. 85-94. Reprinted in Helaine Newstead. ed. Chaucer and His Contemporaries: Essays on Medieval Literature and Thought. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1968, pp. 164-73.

Review
Gower’s CA is a collection of stories within a framework, as is the “Canterbury Tales”; Gower, however, tries unsuccessfully to link together incompatibles of Christianity and courtly love. Chaucer is wise not to do this. [RFY1981]

Date
1949

Gower Subjects
Confessio Amantis
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations