National Life and Character in the Mirror of Early English Literature.

Author/Editor
Dale, Edmund.

Title
National Life and Character in the Mirror of Early English Literature.

Published
Dale, Edmund. National Life and Character in the Mirror of Early English Literature. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1907, pp. 217, 229, 235, 268, 270, 272, 275, 285, 289, 290, 295 300, 301, 302, 310, 311, 318, 320.

Review
Uses passages from CA as comments on English social life and characters--jugglers, the "ferment of democracy," desire not to slay heathen, fear of Peasants' Revolt; Gower is a "strong partisan of the aristocracy," even though Dale recurrently links his views with those of Langland. [RFY1981; rev. MA].

Date
1907

Gower Subjects
Backgrounds and General Criticism
Confessio Amantis
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations