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Gower's imaginative French poetry is now available in a new edition with facing page translation, annotations, and introduction. Gower's Traitié employs the French poetic form of balade, typically used for courtly verses, to avow instead the virtues of loving marriage, characteristic of Gower's signature moralizing. His Cinkante balades confront the tradition of the French Livre de cent balades, by describing the feelings of a young man towards his lady, but eventually offering a praise of love insofar as it is subject to reason and morality. Together the two works offer an excellent introduction to the Anglo-Norman works of Gower and are perfect for classroom use.

The French Balades

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Paperback / softback by John Gower , R. F. Yeager

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Gower's imaginative French poetry is now available in a new edition with facing page translation, annotations, and introduction. Gower's Traitié... Read more

    Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
    Publication Date: 01/05/2011
    ISBN13: 9781580441551, 978-1580441551
    ISBN10: 1580441556

    Number of Pages: 196

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    Gower's imaginative French poetry is now available in a new edition with facing page translation, annotations, and introduction. Gower's Traitié employs the French poetic form of balade, typically used for courtly verses, to avow instead the virtues of loving marriage, characteristic of Gower's signature moralizing. His Cinkante balades confront the tradition of the French Livre de cent balades, by describing the feelings of a young man towards his lady, but eventually offering a praise of love insofar as it is subject to reason and morality. Together the two works offer an excellent introduction to the Anglo-Norman works of Gower and are perfect for classroom use.

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