TY  - GEN
T1  - Gower's Vulgar tongue : Ovid, lay religion, and English poetry in the Confessio Amantis
T2  - JSTOR EBA.
A1  - McCabe, T. Matthew N.
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge
PB  - D.S. Brewer
YR  - 2011
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_ocn763161306
AB  - After establishing his reputation as a literary author by means of his French and Latin verse, Gower came to recognise the possibilities which English held for serious poetry in the 1380s. This book gives sustained attention to the implications of this language choice for the form, readership, religious position, and lay authority of his best-known work, the Confessio Amantis. The author argues that in all of his moral-political-theological writings, Gower's stance as a satirist and publicist is more markedly lay, and more rhetorically momentous for reasons associated with this lay status, than is generally thought. But during the 1380s, the conditions for writing lay public poetry in English made the Confessio a truly remarkable feat, for Gower and for English poetry.
OP  - 258
CN  - PR1984.C63 M333 2011eb
SN  - 9781846157851
SN  - 1846157854
SN  - 1843842831
SN  - 9781843842835
KW  - Gower, John, : 1325?-1408. : Confessio amantis.
KW  - Gower, John, : 1325?-1408 : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Gower, John, : 1325?-1408
KW  - Confessio amantis (Gower, John)
KW  - English poetry : Middle English, 1100-1500 : History and criticism.
KW  - Poésie anglaise : 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) : Histoire et critique.
KW  - POETRY : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - English poetry : Middle English
KW  - 1100 - 1500
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -