. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . - adopted the vulgar tongueas his instrument under the stress of competition, and he saw. nOWER AS A SATIRIST (MS. Tih. A iv). no hope for the land save in retraced footsteps. He waswholly conservative, wholly medieval. He was a man of greatlearning and with cor.^iderable sense of style, but he had noinstinct for variety. His English verse is fluent and har-monious, his language lucid, and even forcible at
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . - adopted the vulgar tongueas his instrument under the stress of competition, and he saw. nOWER AS A SATIRIST (MS. Tih. A iv). no hope for the land save in retraced footsteps. He waswholly conservative, wholly medieval. He was a man of greatlearning and with cor.^iderable sense of style, but he had noinstinct for variety. His English verse is fluent and har-monious, his language lucid, and even forcible at times, buthe has no touch of brilliancy, no play of fancy, still less anyimagination. He is earnest, sententious, and grave : he is neverjirofound. He can describe realistically the vices of whichthe lover may be guilty, l)ut he cannot: delmeate can tell a story with some sense of ]ir()])orti()n, yet if hisoriginal has failed to grip the dramatic kernel, Gower is Gower slife andWorks. 312 THE BLACK DEATH, AND AFTERWARDS- 11348 unable to make good the omission. Indeed, he often allowshimself to boil down the most effective passages of his originalinto a dry smnmary of contents. His best and most poeticalwork is undoubtedly to be found in his Cinquante Balades
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