Gascoigne, George | William L. Wallace (essay date 1975)
William L. Wallace (essay date 1975)
SOURCE: Wallace, William L. Introduction to George Gascoigne's The Steele Glas and The Complainte of Phylomene: A Critical Edition with an Introduction, pp. 4-70. Salzburg: Institut für Englische Sprache und Literatur, Universität Salzburg, 1975.
[In the essay which follows, Wallace provides an in-depth analysis of both The Steele Glas and The Complainte of Phylomene.]
Maister Gascoigne is not to bee abridged of his deserved esteeme, who first beate the path to that perfection which our best Poets have aspired to since his departure; whereto he did ascend by comparing the Italian with the English as Tully did Graeca cum Latinis. …
Thus Thomas Nashe “To the Gentleman Students of both Universities.”1 But with the notable exception of Ivor Winters, who ranks George Gascoigne “one of the six or seven greatest lyric...
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