Chaucer.
- Author/Editor
- Lawlor, John.
- Title
- Chaucer.
- Published
- Lawlor, John. Chaucer. London: Hutchinson, 1968, pp. 106-07
- Review
- Suggests that Chaucer’s “comic and realistic bent” in the “Canterbury Tales” may have surprised Gower and prompted him to remove the “flattering allusion to Chaucer as Venus’s special poet and disciple” from CA (VIII, *2952ff.). [RFY1981; rev. MA]
- Date
- 1968
- Gower Subjects
- Backgrounds and General Criticism