John Gower S Poetic
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John Gower S Poetic
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Author : Robert F. Yeager
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 1990
John Gower S Poetic written by Robert F. Yeager and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Literary Collections categories.
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.
John Gower Poetry And Propaganda In Fourteenth Century England
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Author : David Richard Carlson
language : en
Publisher: DS Brewer
Release Date : 2012
John Gower Poetry And Propaganda In Fourteenth Century England written by David Richard Carlson and has been published by DS Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Literary Collections categories.
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 for the English state, in support of the regime of Henry IV, at the end of his distinguished career. However, as the author of this book shows, using evidence from Gower's English, French and Latin poems alongside contemporary state papers, pamphlet-literature, and other historical prose, Gower was not the only medieval writer to be so employed in serving a monarchy's goals. Professor Carlson also argues that Gower's late poetry is the apotheosis of the fourteenth-century tradition of state-official writing which lay at the origin of the literary Renaissance in Ricardian and Lancastrian England. David Carlsonis Professor in the Department of English, University of Ottawa.
The Poetic Voices Of John Gower
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Author : Matthew W. Irvin
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2014
The Poetic Voices Of John Gower written by Matthew W. Irvin and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 through his major works, it concentrates on the dialogue of Amans and Genius in the Confessio Amantis. It argues that Gower negotiates problems of politics and problems of love by means of an analogy between political ethics and the rules of fin amour; Amans and Genius are both drawn from and occupied with amatory and ethical traditions, and their discourse produces a series of attempts to find a coherent and rational union of lover and ruler. The volume also argues that Gower's goal is poetic as well as political: through the personae, Gower's readers experience the pains and pleasures of erotic and social love. Gower's personae voice potential responses to exemplary experience, prompting readers to feel and to judge, and moving them to become better lovers and better rulers. Gower's analogy between fin amour and politics brings the affects of the lover to the action of government, and suggests for both love and rule the moderation that brings peace and joy. Matthew W. Irvin is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Chair of the Medieval Studies Program at Sewanee.
Delphi Collected Poetical Works Of John Gower Illustrated
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Author : John Gower
language : en
Publisher: Delphi Classics
Release Date : 2017-12-15
Delphi Collected Poetical Works Of John Gower Illustrated written by John Gower and has been published by Delphi Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-15 with Poetry categories.
The contemporary and personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer, the English poet John Gower produced works in the tradition of courtly love and moral allegory. ‘Confessio Amantis’, Gower’s greatest English poem, is a collection of exemplary tales of love, whereby Venus’ priest, Genius, instructs the poet, Amans, in the art of both courtly and Christian love. The stories derive from classical and medieval sources and are told with a tender, restrained narrative style. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Gower’s complete English works, with related illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Gower's life and works * Concise introduction to Gower’s life and poetry * Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the poems * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes G. C. Macaulay’s 1901 text of ‘Confessio Amantis’, with line numbers * Macaulay’s seminal biography - discover Gower's medieval world Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to see our wide range of poet titles CONTENTS: The Life and Poetry of John Gower Brief Introduction: John Gower by Sidney Lee Confessio Amantis To King Henry IV: In Praise of Piece The Biography Life of Gower by G. C. Macaulay Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of poetry titles or buy the entire Delphi Poets Series as a Super Set
Selected Poetry
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Author : John Gower
language : en
Publisher: Manchester : Carcanet
Release Date : 1983
Selected Poetry written by John Gower and has been published by Manchester : Carcanet this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Poetry categories.
The Complete Works Of John Gower French Works
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Author : John Gower
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
The Complete Works Of John Gower French Works written by John Gower and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Latin poetry categories.
The English Works Of John Gower
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Author : John Gower
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
The English Works Of John Gower written by John Gower and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with categories.
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 offers a valuable glimpse into the literary and cultural heritage of 14th-century England. 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 domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Confessio Amantis Or Tales Of The Seven Deadly Sins
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Author : John Gower
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-11-21
Confessio Amantis Or Tales Of The Seven Deadly Sins written by John Gower and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-21 with Poetry categories.
Confessio Amantis or The Lover's Confession is a 33,000-line Middle-English poem by John Gower. The plot is based on the confession made by an aging lover to the chaplain of Venus. This confession works as a frame story for a collection of shorter narrative poems. As it is mentioned in the prologue, the work was composed on the commission of Richard II.
Gower S Vulgar Tongue
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Author : T. Matthew N. McCabe
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2011
Gower S Vulgar Tongue written by T. Matthew N. McCabe and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Literary Collections categories.
Why did Gower choose to write his most famous poem in English? New insights into his purpose and the context and tradition of the poem are presented here. After establishing his reputation as a literary author by means of his French and Latin verse, Gower came to recognize the possibilities which English held for serious poetry only in the 1380s. This book gives sustained attentionto the implications of this language choice for the form, readership, religious position, and lay authority of his best-known work, the Confessio Amantis.The author argues that in all of his moral-political-theological writings, Gower's stance as a satirist and publicist is more markedly lay, and more rhetorically momentous for reasons associated with this lay status, than is generally thought. But during the 1380s, the conditions for writing lay public poetry in English made the Confessio a truly remarkable feat, for Gower and for English poetry. Notwithstanding the poem's formal debt to aristocratic literature and the evident elitism of its earliest known readership, the Confessio imagines a broader and more popular audience than do the Vox and the Mirour, modulating its author's vision into a comparatively muted register by appropriating the oblique strategies ofOvidian myth, Ovidian art of love, affective devotional writing, and romance. The resulting "public poetry" is at once subtly accommodated to the conditions for writing in English and profoundly significant for the development ofthe English poetic tradition. T. Matthew N. McCabe is Assistant Professor of English at Ambrose University College (Calgary).
John Gower
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Author : Russell A. Peck
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2017
John Gower written by Russell A. Peck and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Literary Criticism categories.
New essays on aspects of Gower's poetry, viewed through the lens of the self and beyond.