Chaucer
Lowes' book on Chaucer (1934), building on the work of George Lyman Kittredge, treats the poet not just as the "father of English poetry" but as, along with Shakespeare and Milton, English literature's greatest poet. The book greatly influenced E. Talbot Donaldson and other eminent mid-20th-century Chaucerians.
His grandfather was David Elliott, who had served as President of Washington College.
Lowes died in Boston, Massachusetts, aged 77.
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