Gower, Chaucer, and Rhyme Royal

Author / Editor
Dean, James.

Title
Gower, Chaucer, and Rhyme Royal

Published
Studies in Philology 88 (1991): 251-75.

Description
In his rhyme-royal poetry, Gower adapted Chaucerian techniques as well as techniques from his own French seven-line poetry. Dean reviews Cinkante balades, Traitie pour essampler les amantz marietz, In Praise of Peace, and Amans's "supplicacioun" from Confessio Amatis 8.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.