Old and Middle English

Abstract

Another item for State-of-Gower's-Reputation department: Burrow gives a sympathetic two pages to Gower (compared to nine and a half for Chaucer, including illustrations) in this popular account of English literary history (pp. 49-50). After a brief biographical summary, he compares CA to LGW as a collection of tales and uses Acteon as an example of Gower's adaptations from Ovid. finest moments in poem, however, come in its closing pages, when Amans discovers that the renunciation of love can be for him no more--and no less--than an acceptance of natural course of things. Review by Tony Tanner in TLS, 17 July 1987, p. 763. [PN. Copyright The John Gower Society. JGN 6.1]

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