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The Poetic Voices of John Gower
Language: en
Pages: 330
Authors: Matthew W. Irvin
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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Gower's use of the persona, the figure of the writer implicated in the text, is the main theme of this book. While it traces the development of Gower's voice th
John Gower in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Martha W. Driver
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

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Essays considering the relationship between Gower's texts and the physical ways in which they were first manifested.
John Gower in England and Iberia
Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: Ana Sáez-Hidalgo
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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John Gower's great poem, the Confessio Amantis, was the first work of English literature translated into any European language. Occasioned by the existence in S
Mirour de L'Omme
Language: en
Pages: 456
Authors: John Gower
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Michigan State University Press

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The Mirour de l'Omme (The Mirror of Mankind) is an encyclopedia of moral topics, including a vivid allegory of the Seven Deadly Sins. Author John Gower (1330-14
John Gower, Poetry and Propaganda in Fourteenth-century England
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: David Richard Carlson
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: DS Brewer

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John Gower's works examined as part of a tradition of "official" writings on behalf of the Crown. John Gower has been criticised for composing verse propaganda