A Short History of English Literature.
- Author/Editor
- Saintsbury, George.
- Title
- A Short History of English Literature.
- Published
- Saintsbury, George. A Short History of English Literature. New York: Macmillan; 1898, pp. 138-42 and passim.
- Review
- Comparison of Gower as a poet with Langland, Chaucer, and the "Pearl"-poet. General assessment, suggesting that Gower is as morally and socially concerned as Langland, as courtly as Chaucer, and not as critically aware as the "Pearl"-poet; also that he is a competent but not exciting writer. [RFY1981]
- Date
- 1898
- Gower Subjects
- Backgrounds and General Criticism
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations