Marcus Boxhorn's Misattribution of Verses from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" to John Gower.

Author / Editor
Levelt, Sjoerd.

Title
Marcus Boxhorn's Misattribution of Verses from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" to John Gower.

Published
Notes and Queries 265 (2020): 14-16.

Description
Examines sources that Boxhorn drew upon for quoting GP and for (mis)identifying its author to show that, contrary to what scholars have believed, this seventeenth-century Dutch professor of history and rhetoric "was acquainted with neither Chaucer nor Gower."

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales