English Lands, Letters, and Kings from Celt to Tudor.

Author/Editor
Mitchell, Donald G.

Title
English Lands, Letters, and Kings from Celt to Tudor.

Published
Mitchell, Donald G. English Lands, Letters, and Kings from Celt to Tudor. New York: Scribner's, 1889, pp. 127-29.

Review
Gower is "a poet I name from a sense of duty rather than any special liking . . . . He had art, he had learning, he had good will; but he could not weave words into the thrush-like melodies of Chaucer." Describes VC and CA negatively, with brief biographical comments. [RFY1981; rev. MA]

Date
1889

Gower Subjects
Backgrounds and General Criticism