"When Adam Delved" . . . Contexts of an Historical Proverb.

Author/Editor
Friedman, Albert B.

Title
"When Adam Delved" . . . Contexts of an Historical Proverb.

Published
Friedman, Albert B. "'When Adam Delved' . . . Contexts of an Historical Proverb." In Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewd: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 213-30.

Review
Uses Gower as one of several examples of writers with belief in a graded--not to be called reactionary--view of society. [RFY1981]

Date
1974

Gower Subjects
Backgrounds and General Criticism