Chaucer and Ovid.

Author/Editor
Fyler, John M.

Title
Chaucer and Ovid.

Published
Fyler, John M. Chaucer and Ovid. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979, pp. 91-92, 177n

Review
Gower uses the topos of mating birds as a contrast to the unrequited human lover to set up frameworks for CA and Balade XXV; in Balade XXXIIII [sic], Gower uses Ovid's Ceyx and Alcione story to effect. [RFY1981]

Date
1979

Gower Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Confessio Amantis
Cinkante Balades