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The complete works of John Gower, volume 2 — John Gower

The complete works of John Gower, volume 2

John Gower

  • Poetry
  • Book language: English
  • 840 pages

The second volume of G. C. Macaulay's edition gathers John Gower's English poems, including the long moral narrative Confessio Amantis. Written in Middle English, it uses tales and allegory to explore love, sin, and conscience. It is worth hearing for its vivid medieval storytelling and its place beside Chaucer in fourteenth-century poetry.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN GOWER
  2. PREFATORY NOTE
  3. CONTENTS
  4. INTRODUCTION
  5. CORRIGENDA ET ADDENDA
  6. AN ADDITIONAL MS. OF THE ‘CONFESSIO AMANTIS’
  7. CONFESSIO AMANTIS[24a]
  8. Incipit Liber Primus
  9. Incipit Liber Secundus.
  10. Incipit Liber Tercius.
  11. Incipit Liber Quartus.
  12. Incipit Liber Quintus.
  13. NOTES
  14. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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