Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete
George Gilfillan · English
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Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete
George Gilfillan · English
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INTRODUCTORY ESSAY We propose to introduce our 'Specimens' by a short Essay on the Origin and Progress of English Poetry on to the days of Chaucer and of Gower. Having called, in conjunction with many other critics, Chaucer 'the Father of English Poetry,' to seek to go back further may seem like pursuing antenatal researches. But while Chaucer was the sun, a certain glimmering dawn had gone before him, and to reflect that, is the object of the following pages. Britain, when the Roman
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