Vernacular Authorship and Public Poetry: John Gower.
- Author / Editor
- McCabe, T. Matthew N.
Vernacular Authorship and Public Poetry: John Gower.
- Published
- Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 563-79.
- Description
- Discusses the "very novelty of Gower's claim to be a nationally significant, elite, literary author by examining specific articulations of this claim." Examining the implications of such a claim, McCabe argues for Gower's influence on English poetry through Hoccleve and Lydgate, and on Chaucer's own poetic mode in Ret.
- Alternative Title
- Oxford Handbook of Chaucer
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Retraction
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations