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Title: Confessio Amantis by John Gower, Russell A. Peck ISBN: 0-8020-6438-8 Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr Pub. Date: June, 1981 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: John Gower and a New Vision of the World
Comment: JOHN GOWER -Confessio Amantis Gower`s contribution to the developement of English literature is very important . Though he spoke French and Latin ,two languages very popular in the fourteenth century he found it important to write in English . In "Confessi Amantis "Gower leaves behind the morality and admitting with honesty that he was not born to set the world right starts telling stories about Love . Anyway , he tries to mingle the parts of a lover poet and that of a Christian moralist ; the lover must learn to be a good and virtous man . The book is a collection of more than a hundres stories of various length and of very diverse origin , from Ovid to the Bible , all told in a captivant and pleasant style .
Rating: 4
Summary: Gower - the courtly lover poet and the moralist
Comment: Gower`s contribution to the developement of the English literature is very important . Though he spoke French and Latin , two languages very popular in the fourtheenth century he found it important to write in English . In " Confessio Amantis" Gower leaves behind the morality and admitting with honesty that he was not born to set the world right starts telling stories about Love . Anyway , he tries to mingle the parts of the courtly lover poet and that of a Christian moralist; the courtly lover must learn to be a good and virtous man The book is a collection of more than a hundred stories of various length and of very diverse origin , from Ovid to the Bible , all told in a captivant and pleasant style .
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Title: The Vision of Piers Plowman: A Critical Edition of the B-Text Based on Trinity College Cambridge MS B.15.17 (Everyman's Library (Paper)) by William Langland, A.V.C. Schmidt ISBN: 0460875094 Publisher: Everymans Library List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Title: The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris, Jean De Meun, Charles Dahlberg ISBN: 0691044562 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 03 July, 1995 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Reform and Cultural Revolution: 1350-1547 (Oxford English Literary History, Vol 2) by James Simpson ISBN: 0198182619 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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