The Poetic Voices of John Gower: Politics and Personae in the "Confessio Amantis."

Author / Editor
Irvin, Matthew W.

Title
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