Ovid in Chaucer and Gower.

Author / Editor
Galloway, Andrew.

Title
Ovid in Chaucer and Gower.

Published
In John F. Miller and Carole E. Newlands, eds. A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid (Chichester: Wiley, 2014), pp. 187-201.

Description
Surveys texts by and about Ovid that Chaucer and Gower "might have used," arguing that the influence of Ovid was pervasive, complex, and crucial to the "careers and poetic self-fashioning" of both medieval poets, a model of poetic authority for them. Shows where and how, throughout his career, "Chaucer shapes his poetic identity and persona in a wry distortion of Ovid as 'praeceptor' or 'magister amoris'."

Contributor
MIller, John F., ed
Newlands, Carole E, ed.

Alternative Title
A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations