Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" as "Dits."

Author / Editor
Burrow, J. A.

Title
Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" as "Dits."

Published
Cristina Maria Cervone and D. Vance Smith, eds. Readings in Medieval Textuality: Essays in Honour of A. C. Spearing (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2016), pp. 157-68.

Description
Argues that CT and Gower's "Confessio Amantis" take the form of French "dit" poems. Claims that both works fit the genre because they have "sufficient 'dit'-like features."

Alternative Title
Readings in Medieval Textuality.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations