Chaucer and His World.
- Author/Editor
- Brewer, Derek S.
- Title
- Chaucer and His World.
- Published
- Brewer, Derek S. Chaucer and His World. London: Methuen, 1978, pp. 69, 84, 138, 209, 212.
- Review
- Gower is Chaucer's friend; points out, contra Thomas Speght (1598), that Gower may not have been a lawyer; Gower and Chaucer have different temperaments, though both are learned, secular poets; Gower is "far-sighted" in his criticism of rebels (Peasants' Revolt); Gower may have switched the dedication of CA from Richard II to Henry after 4 February 1399 (death of John of Gaunt) on the grounds that Henry was not called "of Lancaster" until after that time. [RFY1981]
- Date
- 1978
- Gower Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Biography of Gower
Confessio Amantis