Pan the Goat-god: His Myth in Modern Times.
- Author/Editor
- Merivale, Patricia.
- Title
- Pan the Goat-god: His Myth in Modern Times.
- Published
- Merivale, Patricia. Pan the Goat-god: His Myth in Modern Times. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969, pp. 16, 240n40, 254n2
- Review
- Allusions to Pan are not common in England before the 1580s, but Chaucer has one, BD 512; Gower has two, CA, VIII, 2239-40 and V, 1005-44 (see also Pro. 116-17); and Lydgate has one in "Assembly of Gods, 323-24. Chaucer and Gower follow Servius, "Eclogue" II, 31: Pan a "poetis fingitur cum amore luctatus et ab eo victus, quia, ut legimus, omnia vincit amor." ("Pan is depicted by the poets as wrestling with love and defeated by him, since, as we read, love conquers all"). [RFY1981]
- Date
- 1969
- Gower Subjects
- Confessio Amantis
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations