Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 104
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.Chaucer. Boccaccio had written his De- cameron, and it was this method of writing a seriesof poems or stories by means of connecting-links… … 62 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 UncleToby or…
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