The Strumpet Muse: Art and Morals in Chaucer's Poetry.
- Author/Editor
- David, Alfred.
- Title
- The Strumpet Muse: Art and Morals in Chaucer's Poetry.
- Published
- David, Alfred. The Strumpet Muse: Art and Morals in Chaucer's Poetry. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1976, pp. 9-10, 26, 36; VC 56, 73, 119; CA 120, 125, 127, 252n.
- Review
- Fourteenth-century poets like Chaucer, Machaut, Froissart, and Gower are awarded a new and exalted status; argues that the dedication of Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" to Gower and Strode is seriously meant; the Man of Law is modeled on Gower, which makes the "Man of Law's Tale" jibe at Gower hit more closely to home; Chaucer tells the Man of Law's Tale to show Gower he could do better what Gower had done in his "Tale of Constance" (CA II: 587-1612). [RFY1981]
- Date
- 1976
- Gower Subjects
- Backgrounds and General Criticism
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Confessio Amantis