Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries.

Author/Editor
Hallam, Henry.

Title
Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries.

Published
Hallam, Henry. Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries. 4 vols. London: J. Murray, 1837, I, 63.

Review
Modest praise of Gower in comparison with Chaucer: though not "a poet of nature’s growth," Gower helped to render English "less rude," and is "always sensible, polished, perspicuous, and not prosaic in the worst sense of the word." [RFY1981; rev. MA]

Date
1882

Gower Subjects
Backgrounds and General Criticism
Language and Word Studies