John Gower's Poetic

John Gower's Poetic
Title John Gower's Poetic PDF eBook
Author Robert F. Yeager
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 314
Release 1990
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9780859912808

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John Gower's Poetic is a new study of Gower's complete poetry. Considered are Vox Clamantis, Mirour de l'Omme, Traitié pour les Amantz marietz, Cinkante Balades, Confessio Amantis, and `To King Henry IV, In Praise of Peace'. In fiveintegrative chapters, Yeger demonstrates that Gower - far from being the lugubrious moralist and journeyman craftsman as which he is often portrayed -was in fact a writer of broad learning and ambition, whose work was consistently shaped bya poetic theory of profound originality. To demonstrate this, John Gower's Poetic re-examines Gower's work from the basic levels of orthography, grammar, vocabulary, and metrics, to his enduring macrocosmic themes; in the process, Yeager shows that Gower saw himself as an `auctor', or `poete', in the manner of Dante, Machaut, Froissart, and Deschamps. The book concludes with an extensive, fresh reading of Gower's greatest poem, the Confessio Amantis. Professor R. F. Yeager teaches in the Department of English and Foreign Languages, University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Gower's Confessio Amantis

Gower's Confessio Amantis
Title Gower's Confessio Amantis PDF eBook
Author Peter Nicholson
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Pages 228
Release 1991
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9780859913188

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Eleven essays by influential scholars (from C.S. Lewis to A.J. Minnis] provide an introduction for students to Gower's Confessio Amantisand its important criticism.

John Gower in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books

John Gower in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
Title John Gower in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books PDF eBook
Author Martha W. Driver
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 324
Release 2020
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1843845539

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Essays considering the relationship between Gower's texts and the physical ways in which they were first manifested.

A Descriptive Catalogue of the English Manuscripts of John Gower's Confessio Amantis

A Descriptive Catalogue of the English Manuscripts of John Gower's Confessio Amantis
Title A Descriptive Catalogue of the English Manuscripts of John Gower's Confessio Amantis PDF eBook
Author Derek Pearsall
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 415
Release 2021
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 1843846136

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Winner of the 2022 John Hurt Fisher Award from the John Gower SocietyFirst comprehensive catalogue of the manuscripts of one of the most important medieval works, with full descriptions of their features.The Confessio Amantis is John Gower's major work in English, written around the time that his acquaintance Geoffrey Chaucer was writing the Canterbury Tales. Extant manuscripts are numerous. At the end of the nineteenth century G. C. Macaulay had described the forty manuscripts then known to survive in the introduction to his edition, but some of these descriptions were very brief, and of course the other nine of whose existence he was then unaware were not included. This descriptive catalogue of all of the surviving manuscripts containing the Confessio is the first work to bring together extensive detailed descriptions of its forty-nine complete manuscripts and numerous fragments and excerpts; it will enable scholars of Middle English literature and manuscript studies to compare features across the corpus of surviving manuscripts or read detailed descriptions of individual manuscripts. Each description in this catalogue covers the manuscript's contents, artwork, physical qualities such as size, material, collation, foliation, etc., as well as additions by later users and provenance. There is also a lengthy introduction giving an overview of the corpus, and appendices for reference to the current whereabouts of the manuscripts, fragments and excerpts, and listing Gower's Latin and French works that appear in some of the manuscripts. Eight colour illustrations provide context for discussions of the miniatures and illuminated borders of some manuscripts. surviving manuscripts or read detailed descriptions of individual manuscripts. Each description in this catalogue covers the manuscript's contents, artwork, physical qualities such as size, material, collation, foliation, etc., as well as additions by later users and provenance. There is also a lengthy introduction giving an overview of the corpus, and appendices for reference to the current whereabouts of the manuscripts, fragments and excerpts, and listing Gower's Latin and French works that appear in some of the manuscripts. Eight colour illustrations provide context for discussions of the miniatures and illuminated borders of some manuscripts. surviving manuscripts or read detailed descriptions of individual manuscripts. Each description in this catalogue covers the manuscript's contents, artwork, physical qualities such as size, material, collation, foliation, etc., as well as additions by later users and provenance. There is also a lengthy introduction giving an overview of the corpus, and appendices for reference to the current whereabouts of the manuscripts, fragments and excerpts, and listing Gower's Latin and French works that appear in some of the manuscripts. Eight colour illustrations provide context for discussions of the miniatures and illuminated borders of some manuscripts. surviving manuscripts or read detailed descriptions of individual manuscripts. Each description in this catalogue covers the manuscript's contents, artwork, physical qualities such as size, material, collation, foliation, etc., as well as additions by later users and provenance. There is also a lengthy introduction giving an overview of the corpus, and appendices for reference to the current whereabouts of the manuscripts, fragments and excerpts, and listing Gower's Latin and French works that appear in some of the manuscripts. Eight colour illustrations provide context for discussions of the miniatures and illuminated borders of some manuscripts. for reference to the current whereabouts of the manuscripts, fragments and excerpts, and listing Gower's Latin and French works that appear in some of the manuscripts. Eight colour illustrations provide context for discussions of the miniatures and illuminated borders of some manuscripts.

Aspects of Love in John Gower's Confessio Amantis

Aspects of Love in John Gower's Confessio Amantis
Title Aspects of Love in John Gower's Confessio Amantis PDF eBook
Author Ellen S. Bakalian
Publisher Routledge
Pages 250
Release 2004-03-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1135879915

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Throughout the tales in the Confessio Amantis, John Gower proposes that reciprocal love is the remedy to what ails man and society. This book explores how Gower uses the aspects of love in the Confessio-the notions of kinde, or passionate love, and reason in the sphere of love; honeste love in the Marriage Tales of the Four Wives; passionate and excessive love in the Forsaken Women's tales; and Amans's lovesickness. In her thorough examination of Gower's work, Ellen S. Bakalian shows how Gower emphasizes and illustrates a belief that reason must rule man in all things, including his natural instincts to love.

Love & Ethics in Gower's Confessio Amantis

Love & Ethics in Gower's Confessio Amantis
Title Love & Ethics in Gower's Confessio Amantis PDF eBook
Author Peter Nicholson
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Pages 484
Release 2005
Genre Christian ethics in literature
ISBN 9780472115129

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Offers a comprehensive new reading of the most important English work of Chaucer's best-known contemporary

The Complete Works of John Gower

The Complete Works of John Gower
Title The Complete Works of John Gower PDF eBook
Author John Gower
Publisher
Pages 672
Release 1901
Genre
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