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John Gower’s poetry offers an important and immediate response to the turbulent events of his day. The essays here examine his life and his works from an historical angle, bringing…
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John Gower
Discover the medieval world of poet John Gower with this collection of his English-language works. From his celebrated poem Confessio Amantis to his lesser-known In Praise of Peace, this book…
A collection of the works of the 14th century poet John Gower, including his famous poem 'Confessio Amantis'.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and…
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
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George Campbell Macaulay, John Gower
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
New essays on aspects of Gower’s poetry, viewed through the lens of the self and beyond.
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1902 Original Publisher: Clarendon Press Subjects: Latin poetry Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Ancient
Reinhold Pauli, John Gower
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
It would not be an exaggeration to observe that in the last two decades Gower studies have developed in response to a widening appreciation of his poetry. This third volume…
The topics addressed in these ten essays also provide grounds of another kind to assess the foci of contemporary Gower studies. As well as place, the political element in Gower’s…
The 13 essays included here all represent a fresh approach by North American and European scholars to offer a representative sample of the many diverse directions taken by Gower studies…
Conrad van Dijk (Customer)
An examination of the ways in which Gower’s poetry engages with contemporary law and legal questions.
The essays collected here represent the current state of research into the works of John Gower, poet, philosopher, and contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer. They assess Gower’s literary output within the…
The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower reviews the most current scholarship on the late medieval poet and opens doors purposefully to research areas of the future. It is an…
A poet who wrote fluently in Middle English, Anglo-French, and Latin, John Gower typifies the English Middle Ages. His economical and sober style, the topics he addressed-marriage, love, chivalry, social…
Robert J. Meindl
Studies in John Gower is a translation of Maria Wickert’s Studien zu John Gower, the book that began the modern study of the Vox Clamantis. It is a monograph in…
Llanelli stands on several borders in Wales. Industrial town, or still belonging to its rural Carmarthenshire hinterland? Welsh or Englishspeaking? Plaid or Labour? Shaped by its workers or by the…
This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in…
An allegorical confession of sins against Love, within which a multitude of individual tales are told.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
John Gower (Open University, UK)
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
