The Personality of Chaucer.

Author/Editor
Wagenknecht, Edward.

Title
The Personality of Chaucer.

Published
Wagenknecht, Edward. The Personality of Chaucer. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968, pp. 24, 53, 58, 68, 115-16, 144.

Review
Gower as Chaucer’s friend, moral and poetic critic, a pacifist, a writer of love poetry who, like Chaucer, felt he may have been a bit too fond of love-poetry in his youth; if Chaucer was “hitting at” Gower in Man of Law’s Prologue, he was hitting “below the belt.” [RFY1981; rev. MA]

Date
1968

Gower Subjects
Backgrounds and General Criticism
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations