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