Gower's Confessio amantis : a critical anthology

by Peter Nicholson

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This collection gathers in one place the essays that have done most to shape the modern critical discussion of the Confessio Amantis, and illustrates, by the choice of the landmarks of Gower criticism, how the study of the poem has evolved. It also provides representative examples of major approaches to the poem and selected studies of its most important aspects The essays provide a valuable indication of precisely what kinds of challenges the Confessio Amantishas posed for modern readers; show more they will provide the groundwork for all future study of the Confessio Essays by: G.C. MACAULAY, C.S. LEWIS, GEORGE R. COFFMAN, J.A.W. BENNETT, DEREK PEARSALL, ARNO BESCH, GEORGE. D. ECONOMOU, GOTÖZ SCHMITZ, DENISE N. BAKER, A.J. MINNIS and KURT OLSSON show less

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Gower's Confessio amantis : a critical anthology

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Fiction and Literature, Poetry, Literature Studies and Criticism
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821.1Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesBritish Poetry1066-1400 Early English period, medieval period
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PR1984 .C63 .G58Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish LiteratureAnglo-Norman period. Early English. Middle English
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