Social Class in the Classroom: Gower's Estates Poetry.

Author / Editor
Lightsey, Scott.

Title
Social Class in the Classroom: Gower's Estates Poetry.

Published
R. F. Yeager and Brian W. Gastle, eds. Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower (New York: Modern Language Association,
2011), pp. 36-41.

Description
Compares and contrasts the uses of estates literature in works by Gower, Chaucer, and William Langland, explaining the didacticism of Gower, Chaucer's "playful 'show--don't tell'" in GP, and Langland's allusive allegorizing.

Alternative Title
Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales