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