Alchemical Language: Latin and the Vernacular in the Poetry of Thomas Norton and John Gower.
- Author / Editor
- Hadbawnik, David.
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