The Goddess Fortuna in Mediaeval Literature.

Author/Editor
Patch, Howard R.

Title
The Goddess Fortuna in Mediaeval Literature.

Published
Patch, Howard R. The Goddess Fortuna in Mediaeval Literature. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1927, pp. 24, 30 40, 47-49, 51, 53, 55-59, 61, 63-64, 66, 68, 70-72, 76-77, 79, 81, 83, 94, 97, 99-100, 102-05, 107-11, 113, 119, 121, 155-57, 166, 169.

Review
Erudite and well-documented review of Gower's use of fortune in all of his works, major and minor. Fortuna is an important for Gower, although he never uses the goddess in ways uncharacteristic of his time. [RFY1981]

Date
1927

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