The Interpretation of Nature in English Poetry from Beowulf to Shakespeare.

Author/Editor
Moorman, Frederic.

Title
The Interpretation of Nature in English Poetry from Beowulf to Shakespeare.

Published
Moorman, Frederic. The Interpretation of Nature in English Poetry from Beowulf to Shakespeare. Quellen und Forschungen zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte der Germanische Völker, no. 95. Strassburg: K. J. Trübner, 1905, pp. 122-24.

Review
Discusses Nature as landscape, and notes Gower uses the idea very little: in CA, "[f]or the most part, he is too absorbed in his love-story and his often ill-fitting moral to have any eye for landscape." [RFY1981; rev. MA].

Date
1905

Gower Subjects
Backgrounds and General Criticism
Style, Rhetoric, and Versification