In the Days of Chaucer.
- Author/Editor
- Jenks, Tudor.
- Title
- In the Days of Chaucer.
- Published
- Jenks, Tudor. In the Days of Chaucer. New York: Barnes, 1904, pp. 110, 113, 215, 217-22, 227, 250
- Review
- Repeats James R. Lowell's (1871) claim that "Gower's work is painfully dull," and Thomas Lounsbury's opinion that Chaucer surpassed Gower "in popularity, in poetical skill, and in true merit." Describes MO as a "sermon," VC as a "moral allegory, and CA as a "collection of tales in verse illustrating that 'love' which was the topic of chivalrous romances." Treats Gower as Chaucer's "friend" and generally inferior poetic colleague, among the "lesser lights" of the age. [RFY1981; rev. MA]
- Date
- 1904
- Gower Subjects
- Backgrounds and General Criticism