A Concordance to the French Poetry and Prose of John Gower |
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| Editor:
| Yeager, R. F.
West, Mark
Hinson, Robin L. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-87013-474-6 |
| Publication Date: | May 1997 |
| Publisher: | Michigan State University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $140.00 |
Book Description:
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That the poet John Gower was a major literary figure in England at the close of the fourteenth century is no longer in question. Scholarly attention paid to him and to his work over the past twenty-five years has redeemed him from an undeserved obscurity imposed by the preceding two hundred. We are offered in this concordance of his Anglo-Norman work a unique opportunity to view a poetic language as it was written and read in England until Gower's death in 1408 and...
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That the poet John Gower was a major literary figure in England at the close of the fourteenth century is no longer in question. Scholarly attention paid to him and to his work over the past twenty-five years has redeemed him from an undeserved obscurity imposed by the preceding two hundred. We are offered in this concordance of his Anglo-Norman work a unique opportunity to view a poetic language as it was written and read in England until Gower's death in 1408 and beyond.