The Gower Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Pearsall, Derek.
The Gower Tradition
- Published
- A. J. Minnis, ed. Gower's "Confessio Amantis": Responses and Reassessments (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1983), pp. 179-97.
- Description
- Surveys the "history of Gower's reputation," beginning with Chaucer's reference to him as "moral Gower" at the end of TC and his possible allusions to Gower's works in ManT and MLP. The idea of a "quarrel" between the two poets is perhaps "exaggerated," but the epithet "moral" has "stuck" to Gower, The reputations of the poets were long linked.
- Alternative Title
- Gower's "Confessio Amantis": Responses and Reassessments.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Man of Law and His Tale
- Manciple and His Tale