The Poetic Voices of John Gower: Politics and Personae in the "Confessio Amantis."
- Author / Editor
- Irvin, Matthew W.
The Poetic Voices of John Gower: Politics and Personae in the "Confessio Amantis."
- Published
- Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2014.
- Physical Description
- viii, 315 pp.
- Description
- Argues that Gower's intention in "Confessio Amantis" is both "poetic, as well as political." Emphasizes how Chaucer and Gower are concerned with "authority and experience" in their poems. Discusses WBT in relation to Gower's "Tale of Florent."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations