Human and Divine Love in Chaucer and Gower

Author / Editor
Crepin, Andre.

Title
Human and Divine Love in Chaucer and Gower

Published
Juliette Dor, ed. A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck (Liege: University of Liege, 1992), pp. 71-79.

Description
Attitudes toward earthly and heavenly love in Chaucer's TC and Gower's Confessio Amantis, Chaucer's and Gower's references to each other, and the presence of phrasal similarities in the two works suggest that Chaucer's ending to TC "is to be explained both as a literary outbidding, a retort to Gower, and as a sincere statement of a deep religious feeling."

Alternative Title
Wyf Ther Was.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.