English Verse of Complaint, 1250-1400.

Author/Editor
Kinney, Thomas L.

Title
English Verse of Complaint, 1250-1400.

Published
Kinney, Thomas L. "English Verse of Complaint, 1250-1400." Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Michigan, 1959.

Review
Attempts to define "complaint" poetry as a genre aimed primarily against the first two estates, the clergy and the aristocracy; draws on materials from Rolle, Langland, Wycliff, Chaucer, and Gower. [RFY1981]

Date
1959

Gower Subjects
Backgrounds and General Criticism