In this book, David R. Carlson sets Gower in a context in which he has not been set before. Usually discussed as, in Anne Middletons phrase, a public poet, a commentator on the condition of English society in the last decades of the fourteenth century, Gower appears here as a state propagandist. Carlson takes Gowers less-read works, especially Cronica tripertita and In Praise of Peace, and places them within a selection of Latin and vernacular texts which he associates with propaganda and which stretches back to 1314 and the battle of Bannockburn. Carlsons political interest in Gowers Lancastrian poems is akin to discussions of the Cronica such as Helen Barrs in Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England, but his interpretative approach and his books chronological scope are entirely different. Poetry and Propaganda puts together an inventory of texts discussing royal political events that stud the fourteenth century and caps this inventory with Gowers Lancastrian poetry.