My Study Windows.

Author/Editor
Lowell, James Russell.

Title
My Study Windows.

Published
Lowell, James Russell. My Study Windows. Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1871, pp. 252, 258-60

Review
The archetype of criticism hostile to Gower, to wit: a poet of infinite dullness, thoroughly lacking in talent, or even the taste to write short poems; Chaucer's "Monk's Tale" "slyly satirizes" the "long-winded morality of Gower." [RFY1981; rev. MA]

Date
1871

Gower Subjects
Backgrounds and General Criticism
Influence and Later Allusion