Gower and Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Gastle, Brian.

Title
Gower and Chaucer.

Published
In Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, Brian Gastle, and R. F. Yeager, eds. The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower (New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 296-310.

Description
Describes four aspects of the critical tradition of exploring relations between Gower's and Chaucer's poetry--"biography, common literary sources and analogues [especially in WBT, MLT, and Philomela in LGW], thematic issues, and poetics/style"--surveying the field and commending studies that consider how the poets' "union allows us greater understanding of their respective works and their literary environment," rather than preferring one poet over the other.

Alternative Title
The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Man of Law and His Tale
Legend of Good Women