John Gower's works examined as part of a tradition of "official" writings on behalf of the Crown. John Gower has been criticised for composing verse propaganda

This is the first book in English to deal with the twin subjects of Old Norse poetry and the various vernacular treatises on native poetry that were a conspicuo

This wide-ranging study of language and cultural change in fourteenth-century England argues that the influence of oral tradition is much more important to the