The Compleat Gentleman.
- Author/Editor
- Peacham, Henry.
- Title
- The Compleat Gentleman.
- Published
- London 1622. New York: De Capo Press; Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1968. Facsimile reprint of STC No. 19502.
- Review
- Peacham's major entry in its entirety (pp. 94-95): "Gower being very gracious with King Henrie the 4. in his time carried the name of the onely Poet, but his verses to say truth, were poore and plaine, yet full of good and graue Moralitie: but while he affected altogether the French phrase and words, made himself too obscure to his Reader; beside his invention commeth farre shorte of the promise of his Titles. He published onely (that I know of) three bookes, which at S. Marie Oueries in Southwark vpon his monument lately repaired by some Benefactor, lie under his head; which are Vox clamantis, Speculum Meditantis, and Confessio Amantis. He was a Knight, as also was Chaucer." Peacham also mentions that, as Chaucer was dear to Richard the second, so was "Gower to Henry the fourth" (p. 81). [MA]
- Date
- 1622
1968
- Gower Subjects
- Biography of Gower