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
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