Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 262
peare ; the other—Gower—less known to most ofus, was the author of three longpoems— Speculum Meditantis, inFrench; Vox Clamantis,in Latin Confessio Amantis, in English.Boccaccio had wiitten his De-cameron, and it was this method of wiiting a seriesof poems or stories by means of connecting-links… … Chaucer. 142 ENGLISH COSTUME Gower wrote of his age as a man giving advice,philosophically; he did not attempt characterstudies, but framed his poems as narratives withmorals fit for application to his times. Chaucer drew his characters clearly—so clearlythat they have become as living as have…
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