The Gower Tradition

Author / Editor
Pearsall, Derek.

Title
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