Chaucer and the Making of English Poetry.

Author/Editor
Kean, P. M.

Title
Chaucer and the Making of English Poetry.

Published
Kean, P. M. Chaucer and the Making of English Poetry. 2 vols. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972, pp. 1, 24, 38, 72, 74, 179, 184, 196-97, 198, 212, 213, 215, 218, 219-21, 241, 248, 256, 257, 260.

Review
Gower's trilinguality proves Chaucer could have written in other languages. Gower shows self-consciousness of poet's art; Deschamps is a model for CB; Gower is a purveyor of classical learning greater than Chaucer; like Chaucer, he helped to establish the idea of a poet for England, and for all time. Both followed as examples for Lydgate, Hoccleve, Dunbar, and others. [RFY1981]

Date
1972

Gower Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Influence and Later Allusion
Cinkante Balades
Confessio Amantis