Incest and Moral Poetry in Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'
- Author / Editor
- Benson, C. David.
Incest and Moral Poetry in Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 19 (1985): 100-09.
- Description
- Chaucer's Man of Law attacks Gower for stories of Canacee and Apollonius, while defending Chaucer for omission of "swich unkynde abhomynacions" (MLP 77-89). Gower sympathizes with but condemns the characters. In Chaucer we have "a less rigidly prescriptive and a more complex literary achievement" (p. 108).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.