Alchemical Language: Latin and the Vernacular in the Poetry of Thomas Norton and John Gower.

Author / Editor
Hadbawnik, David.

Title
Alchemical Language: Latin and the Vernacular in the Poetry of Thomas Norton and John Gower.

Published
Katherine W. Jager, ed. Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages: Politics, Performativity, and Reception from Literature to Music (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 201-31.

Description
Focuses on Norton and Gower, but closes with a comparison of Gower's "linking of alchemy and language" with Chaucer's in CYT and suggests that Gower combines Latin and English to "produce poetic truths" while Chaucer emphasizes "combinations of various registers within the vernacular."

Contributor
Jager, Katherine W., ed.

Alternative Title
Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages: Politics, Performativity, and Reception from Literature to Music.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies