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Book SynopsisNew perspectives on one of the most important medieval poets. The essays in this volume pay tribute to the distinguished career of Professor R.F. Yeager. Appropriately for one who has done so much to advance scholarship and critical debate on this poet, they focus on John Gower. The approaches taken range widely, from poetics to palaeography, from close critical interpretation to ecocriticism, offering important new readings of Gower and his age. Particular topics addressed include Gower's revisions to the Tale ofRosiphilee; theological and philosophical positions within Gower's work; the violence of manuscript images of Confessio Amantis; and the views of a fellow poet on Gower - Edward Thomas.
Trade ReviewThe book provides a varied and interesting take on Gower, with several outstanding contributions, and it pays a fitting tribute to the honorand. * Journal of the Early Book Society *
Table of ContentsIntroduction - Susannah Chewning Edward Thomas on Gower - A S G Edwards The Sutherland Fragment of Gower's Confessio Amantis - Derek Pearsall Incarnational Making in Vox Clamantis II - Stephanie L. Batkie and Matthew W. Irvin Patriarchy, Family and Law in Gower's Confessio Amantis - Russell Peck Gower's Ballades for Women - Peter Nicholson John Gower and the Artists of M. 126 - Martha W. Driver Gower in Striped Sleeves: Mirour de l'Omme as Gower's Early Humanism - Andrew Galloway What's in a Name? History, Genre, and Political Speech in Gower's Chronica Tripertita - David A. Roberts Studies in Gower's Age: Ciceronian Echoes in Confessio Amantis - William Rogers Gower's Light: the Ecology of "De Lucis scrutino" - Natalie Grinnell Gower, Chaucer, and the "Treuthe of Prestehode" - Michael Kuczynski "To Hear an Old Man Sing": Apollonius, Pericles, and the Age of Gower - Roger A. Ladd The Constraints of Justice in Gower's "Lawyerly Habit of Mind" - Brian Gastle A Poet at Work: John Gower's Revisions to the Tale of Rosiphilee - Richard Firth Green A Personal Tribute to Robert F. Yeager - Susannah Chewning Bibliography of R. F. Yeager's Writings General Bibliography
