Courtesy and the Gawain-Poet.

Author/Editor
Brewer, Derek S.

Title
Courtesy and the Gawain-Poet.

Published
John Lawlor, ed. Patterns of Love and Courtesy: Essays in Memory of C. S. Lewis. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1966, pp. 54-85. Reprinted in Helaine Newstead, ed. Chaucer and His Contemporaries: Essays on Medieval Literature and Thought. Greenwich Conn.: Fawcett, pp. 310-35.

Review
Includes Gower among the company of Chaucer, Machaut, Deschamps, Froissart, Dante, Petrarch, and Langland as poets who create a unity of an “internal” narrator/character and an external poet/artist. See particularly p. 321n. [RFY1981]

Date
1966

Gower Subjects
Backgrounds and General Criticism