An Interpretation of Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women."
- Author/Editor
- Griffith, D. D.
- Title
- An Interpretation of Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women."
- Published
- Griffith, D. D. "An Interpretation of Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women'." The Manly Anniversary Studies in Language and Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1923), pp. 32-43. Rpt. in Edward Wagenknecht, ed. Chaucer: Modern Essays in Criticism (London: Oxford University Press, 1959), pp. 396-404.
- Review
- The impulse for Chaucer's revision of the Prologue to the "Legend of Good Women" probably came from a request by Venus in Book VIII of Gower's CA, that Chaucer continue his work. [RFY1981]
- Date
- 1923
- Gower Subjects
- Influence and Later Allusion
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations