The Age of Chaucer (1346-1400).
- Author/Editor
- Snell, F. J.
- Title
- The Age of Chaucer (1346-1400).
- Published
- Snell, F. J. The Age of Chaucer (1346-1400). London: G. Bell, 1901, pp. 101-20.
- Review
- Brief biography and discussion of all Gower's major poems (CA, VC, MO, and CB), with recurrent attention to his relations to Chaucer, and taking care to distinguish between French and Gower's Anglo-Norman dialect (pp. 105-06). Gower uses poetry not to move the fancy, but for didactic purposes; nevertheless, CA offers "a repository of tales, simple, straightforward, unadulterated and unadorned" (119). [RFY1981; rev. MA]
- Date
- 1901
- Gower Subjects
- Backgrounds and General Criticism
Language and Word Studies