The Complete Works of John Gower, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)
Gower, John Excerpt from The Complete Works of John Gower, Vol. 4
To write anything like a biography of Gower, with the materials that exist, is an impossibility. Almost the only authentic records of him, apart from his writings, are his marriage-licence, his will, and his tomb in St. Saviour's Church, and it was this last which furnished most of the material out of which the early accounts of the poet were composed. A succession of writers from Leland d...