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Selected Poems

John Gower

Edited by Carole Weinberg

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Categories: 14th Century, 15th Century, Christianity, Medieval
Imprint: Fyfield Books
Publisher: Carcanet Press
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Paperback (160 pages)
(Pub. Jan 1986)
9780856354151
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    • John Gower
    John Gower (c.1330 – October 1408) was an English poet, a contemporary of William Langland and a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer. His three major works (the Mirroir de l'Omme, Vox Clamantis, and Confessio Amantis ), are three long poems written in French, Latin, and English respectively. Not much ... read more
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