Chaucer's Early Poetry.

Author/Editor
Clemen, Wolfgang.

Title
Chaucer's Early Poetry.

Published
Clemen, Wolfgang. Chaucer’s Early Poetry. London: Methuen, 1963. Reprinted, 1968, pp. 8, 12, 17ff., 35, 63-64, 86n, 200.

Review
Gower’s poetry is of a “high artistic standard”; Gower is contrasted with Chaucer and Langland as thinkers and poetic stylists (compares CA III, 1243-51 with “Book of the Duchess” 1298-1310); Dido story is “an exemplum”; Chaucer read more Ovid, Virgil, and Statius than did Gower. [RFY1981]

Date
1963

Gower Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations