Venus’ Owne Clerk

Venus' Owne Clerk: Chaucer's Debt to the Confessio Amantis will appeal to all those who value a bit of integration of Chaucer and Gower studies. It develops the unusual theme that the Canterbury Tales were signally influenced by John Gower's Confessio Amantis , resulting in a set-up which is entirely different from the one announced in the General Prologue . Lindeboom seeks to show that this results from Gower's call, at the end of his first redaction of the Confessio , for a work similar to his