The Idea of the Canterbury Tales.

Author/Editor
Howard, Donald.

Title
The Idea of the Canterbury Tales.

Published
Howard, Donald. The Idea of the Canterbury Tales. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976, pp. 22, 23n, 46, 47-52, 53, 55, 60, 94, 110-11, 130, 131, 143, 152, 157, 184n, 225, 307, 308, 336.

Review
Includes comparisons of CA and Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"; Gower's idea of the aging world; his use of "impersonal I"; Gower and Chaucer relations; quarrel and "Man of Law's" reference; literary principles; satiric technique; moral ideas. [RFY1981; rev. MA]

Date
1976

Gower Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Confessio Amantis