John Livingston Lowes (lecture date 1930)
SOURCE: "The Art of Geoffrey Chaucer," in Proceedings of the British Academy, Oxford University Press, 1930, pp. 297-326.
[Lowes is noted for his essays and lectures on poetry and is the author of Geoffrey Chaucer and the Development of His Genius. In the following excerpt from one of his published lectures, Lowes provides cultural, biographical, and literary sources for Chaucer's works.]
My subject, as I have announced it, is a theme for a volume, but titles can seldom be brief and specific at...
Source: Poetry Criticism, ©1997 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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