Chaucer and His Poetry.

Author/Editor
Kittredge, George Lyman.

Title
Chaucer and His Poetry.

Published
Kittredge, George Lyman. Chaucer and His Poetry. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1915; sixteenth printing, 1970, pp. 3, 130.

Review
Asserts that Gower was a political conservative, frightened by the Peasants' Revolt; he adopted the code of courtly love in the CA, "with no thought of incongruity." [RFY1981; rev. MA]

Date
1915

Gower Subjects
Backgrounds and General Criticism
Confessio Amantis