Table of Contents

Iohannes Gower, Armiger, Poeta: Records and Memorials of his Life and Death [with Nathalie Cohen and Simon Roffey] - John Hines
Iohannes Gower, Armiger, Poeta: Records and Memorials of his Life and Death [with John Hines and Nathalie Cohen] - Simon Roffey
Iohannes Gower, Armiger, Poeta: Records and Memorials of his Life and Death [with John Hines and Simon Roffey] - Nathalie Cohen
London, Southwark, Westminster: Gower's Urban Contexts - Robert Epstein
John Gower and London English - Jeremy J Smith
The Manuscripts and Illustrations of Gower's Work - Derek Pearsall
Gower after the Middle Ages I: 'This worthy olde writer': Pericles and other Gowers, 1592-1640 - Helen Cooper
Gower after the Middle Ages II: Gower in print - Sian Echard
The French Works: John Gower's French - Robert F Yeager
The Latin Works: Politics, Lament and Praise [with Ted Moore] - A.G Rigg
The Latin Works: Politics, Lament and Praise [with A.G. Rigg] - Edward Moore
The Confessio and the French Tradition - Ardis Butterfield
Classical and Boethian Tradition in the Confessio Amantis - Winthrop Wetherbee
Gender and Sexuality in Confessio Amantis - Diane Watt
The Politics and Psychology of Governance in Gower: Ideas of Kingship and Real Kings - Russell Peck
Gower's Poetic Styles - John A. Burrow

About the Author

The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman. Professor Diane Watt is Head of the School of English and Languages, University of Surrey. Secretaries of God won the 1998 Foster Watson Memorial Gift. Jeremy Smith was professor of English philology at Glasgow, where he remains a senior research fellow and emeritus professor, and an honorary professor at St Andrews. His specialisms include English historical linguistics, medieval studies, and book history, combined recently in Transforming Early English (2020). JOHN HINES is Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University.

Reviews

A welcome addition to the shelf of essay collections on Gower, in large part because of its scope.
*JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY*

The reader will come away with an enriched sense of Gower's true place in the history of English literature.... Eminently readable...Highly Recommended. CHOICE A place to begin work on this poet, to consider and reconsider his considerable achievement - processes which are facilitated by the helpful chronology of Gower criticism appended to this book.
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