Gower Agonistes and Chaucer on Ovid (and Virgil)
- Author / Editor
- Carlson, David R.
Gower Agonistes and Chaucer on Ovid (and Virgil)
- Published
- Modern Language Review 109 (2014): 931-52.
- Description
- Argues that Gower was "emulous and rivalrous," and eager to better the work of Ovid, Chaucer, and even his own early poetry. Compares Chaucer's use of the Ovidian tale of Ceyx and Alcyone, in BD and HF, with Gower's use of the same material in the "Visio Anglie" and in the final "Confessio Amantis" reuse of the Ceyx and Alcione matter. Concludes that Gower's mastery of Latin writers, especially of Ovid, was greater than Chaucer's.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Book of the Duchess
- House of Fame