A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day.

Author/Editor
Saintsbury, George.

Title
A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day.

Published
Saintsbury, George. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day. London: Macmillan, 1910, I, 139-42.

Review
Gower's meter is simple but effective, and proved influential on later writers such as George Wither, William Browne, and John Keats. [RFY1981].

Date
1910

Gower Subjects
Style, Rhetoric, and Versification
Influence and Later Allusion