Social Class in the Classroom: Gower's Estates Poetry.
- Author / Editor
- Lightsey, Scott.
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