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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457379203321

Autore

Yeager Robert F

Titolo

A concordance to the French poetry and prose of John Gower [[electronic resource] /] / compiled by R.F. Yeager, Mark West, Robin L. Hinson ; with the assistance of Adrienne Hollifield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, Mich., : Michigan State University Press, 1997

ISBN

1-60917-310-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (912 p.)

Collana

Medieval texts and studies ; ; 17

Altri autori (Persone)

WestMark <1958->

HinsonRobin L

HollifieldAdrienne

Disciplina

841/.1

Soggetti

Civilization, Medieval, in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Colleagues book."

Sommario/riassunto

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. The facts of his life and career are now documented, and recent critical assessment has placed his achievement most accurately alongside Chaucer's, Langland's, and the Gawain- poet's.  Unique among his contemporaries, all of whom undoubtedly read and used French in some measure, Gower a