John Gower : poems on contemporary events : the Visio Anglie (1381) and Cronica tripertita (1400)
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John Gower : poems on contemporary events : the Visio Anglie (1381) and Cronica tripertita (1400)
（Studies and texts / Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 174）（British writers of the Middle Ages and the early modern period, 2）
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies , Bodleian Library, c2011
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Texts in Latin with English translations
Bibliography: p. [393]-400
Includes index
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The English poet John Gower (ca. 1340-1408) wrote important Latin poems witnessing the two crucial political events of his day: the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 and in 1399 the deposition of Richard II, in the Visio Anglie (A Vision of England) and Cronica tripertita (A Chronicle in Three Parts), respectively. Both poems, usually transmitted with Gower's major Latin work, Vox clamantis, are key primary sources for the historical record, as well as marking culminating points in the development of English literature. The earlier Visio Anglie is verbally derivative of numerous, varied sources, by way of its literary allusions, but is also highly original in its invention and disposition. On the other hand, the Cronica tripertita's organization, even in details, is highly derivative, and from a single source, but its verbal texture is all invented.
This volume includes Latin texts of these poems of Gower, newly established from the manuscripts, with commentary on Gower's relation with the rest of the contemporary historical record and with his literary forebears and contemporaries, including Ovid, Virgil, Peter Riga, Nigel Witeker, and Godfrey of Viterbo. This volume also includes Modern English verse translations of the two poems, which are at once critically accurate and enjoyably accessible.
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