Chaucer's Use of Proverbs.

Author/Editor
Whiting, B. A.

Title
Chaucer's Use of Proverbs.

Published
Whiting, B. J. Chaucer's Use of Proverbs. Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature, vol. 11. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1934, pp. 4-20, 134-55, Appendix C, 265-97.

Review
Includes study of the use and treatment of proverbial material in Gower's major English and French works, with a systematic categorization of types; tables of examples; comparisons of similar materials from Chaucer. [RFY1981; rev. MA]

Date
1934

Gower Subjects
Style, Rhetoric, and Versification
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Bibliographies, Reports, and Reference