Sir Richard Roos, 1410-1482, Lancastrian Poet.

Author/Editor
Seaton, Ethel.

Title
Sir Richard Roos, 1410-1482, Lancastrian Poet.

Published
Seaton, Ethel. Sir Richard Roos, 1410-1482, Lancastrian Poet. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961, pp. 92, 96, 270, 350.

Review
Describes the contents of MS. Cambridge University Library Ff.1.6, which includes work by Roos and excerpts from the CA; suggests Gower may have written "Le Song Verte"; notes Roos and Gower use set phrases repeatedly when translating French poetry into English; compares "Medea" story as told by Roos and Gower. [RFY1981]

Date
1961

Gower Subjects
Influence and Later Allusion
Style, Rhetoric, and Versification
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Language and Word Studies