Historic English.
- Author/Editor
- Fernald, James.
- Title
- Historic English.
- Published
- Fernald, James. Historic English. New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1921, pp. 151-57, 164.
- Review
- Brief biography of Gower, with assessment of works and comparisons with Chaucer, including comments on the "lilting, rippling cadence" of Gower's octosyllables and notice of his extensive use of French and Latin words and derivations. [RFY1981; rev. MA].
- Date
- 1921
- Gower Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
Style, Rhetoric, and Versification