John Gower (1) (–1408)
Autore di John Gower: Confessio Amantis
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Best known as "moral Gower," as he is called by his friend Chaucer in the dedication of Troilus and Criseyde, Gower composed "balades" in the French fashion as well as three long poems, representing the trilingual status of the cultural and political elite of late fourteenth-century England. Mirour mostra altro de l'Homme (Mirror of Man) (c.1376--78), a mammoth French poem of some 30,000 lines, deals with the seven deadly sins. Vox Clamantis (Voice of One Crying) (c.1379--81), in Latin, is a prophetic attack on contemporary political and social abuses in response to the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. Gower's lengthy and occasionally dreary Middle English poem Confessio Amantis (Lover's Confession) (1390), portions of which influenced Chaucer, is set as an allegorical confession of the poet-lover to Genius, the priest of Venus. In 34,000 lines, he retells several classical love stories illustrating cupidity and the other deadly sins. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di John Gower
Delphi Collected Poetical Works of John Gower (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series Book 76) (2017) 5 copie
The English Works of John Gower vol I-II (Early English Text Society Extra Series no. 82) (1900) 2 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Gower, John
- Data di nascita
- 1330 (about)
- Data di morte
- 1408-10
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Southwark Cathedral, London, England, UK
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Kent, England
- Luogo di morte
- London, England
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England (death)
- Attività lavorative
- Poet
- Relazioni
- Chaucer, Geoffrey (friend)
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- Opere
- 24
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 357
- Popolarità
- #67,136
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 42
- Lingue
- 1
- Preferito da
- 2