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Updated: October 26, 2026
A poet to be great must drink of the redolent well of poetry whence flow the four rivers of Understanding, Close-concluding, Novelty, and Carbuncles. These rivers are translatable into: understanding of good and evil, moral purpose, novelty, rhetorical adornment of figures and so forth. The poets praised Gower, Chaucer, and Lydgate deserve their fame, he says, for their morality.