Pictures of Old England.

Author/Editor
Pauli, Reinhold.

Title
Pictures of Old England.

Published
Pauli, Reinhold. Pictures of Old England. Translated by E.C. Otto. London: Macmillan, 1861, pp. 212-16, 220-26. Argues

Review
Argues that Gower's popularity in his own time, and in the hundred or so years following his death, was due primarily to a contemporary taste for elaborate allegory, not to the poet's talent. [RFY1981]

Date
1861

Gower Subjects
Backgrounds and General Criticism