John Gower: Recent Readings

by Robert F. Yeager

In recent years, Gower's reputation has begun to evolve. Scholars and critics have opened his books once more to discover there a talent worthy of respect, rather than something to be viewed as tedious or dull. Recently it has seemed easier to understand Chaucer's good will toward the moral friend and fellow author into whose tutelary watchfulness he commended Troilus and Criseyde-and easier to assess the positive value Chaucer's adjective...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0918720990
• ISBN13: 9780918720993
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
• Length: 381 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.