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- W8276843 abstract "The 1801 edition of Ellis's work, an expanded version of one-volume edition of 1790 (which covered only poetry form fifteenth to seventeenth century), for first time includes a chapter on Gower (pp. 169-98 of volume 1). The basic approach of this anthology is to provide brief sketches of authors and short selections from their works. Gower is slotted in under reign of Edward III. Ellis gives Gower's birth-date as approximately 1326 (see table on p. xi), and suggests that he died in 1402. According to Ellis, little is known about Gower's life, except that he must have been well-born, and indeed well-off, if he could afford to study at Inns of Court and contribute financially to priory of St. Mary Overeys. Ellis believes that Gower's earliest compositions were his French ballads, and he quotes one as an example. A summary overview of VC and MO follows, and rest of chapter focuses on CA. Ellis argues that Gower's decision not to write in English until later in life is explained by prominence of French at court of Edward III. Much of Ellis's overview of CA is borrowed from Thomas Warton (particularly account of Gower's sources). Ellis adds some final observations, including a critique of Gower's adaptation of Ovid. According to Ellis, when read Gower's retellings, we feel a mixture of surprise and despair, at perverse industry employed in removing every detail, on which imagination had been accustomed to fasten. The author of Metamorphosis was a poet, and at least sufficiently fond of ornament; Gower considers him as a mere annalist (177). Ellis therefore considers that Gower's popularity is, perhaps, not very likely to revive (177-78), but he mentions some narratives worth reading and suggests that books 4 and 7 of CA are useful as compendia of learning. As a specimen of Gower's writing, Ellis offers tale of Florent, not only because it provides an analogue to Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale, but also because the story has considerable merit (179). [CvD]" @default.
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