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McCulloch, Florence. "The Dying Swan – A Misunderstanding." Modern Language Notes 74 (1959), pp. 289-292.

Zaerr, Linda Marie. "The Dynamics of Sloth: Fin Amour and Divine Mercy in John Gower's Confessio Amantis." PhD thesis, University of Washington, 1986.

Pratt, Karen. "The Dynamics of the European Short Narrative in its Manuscript Context: The Case of Pyramus and Thisbe." In The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript: Text Collections from a European Perspective. Eds. Karen Pratt, Bart Besamusca, Matthias Meyer, and Ad Putter. (Göttingen: V&R Academic, 2017). Pp. 257-85.

Weiskott, Eric. "The Eagle Has Landed: A Prophetic Pun in John Gower's 'Cronica tripertita'." ANQ: American Notes and Queries 36 (2023): 319-20.

Hertzig, Marie J. "The Early Recension and Continuity of Certain Middle English Texts in the Sixteenth Century. Ph.D Dissertation. University of Pennsylvania, 1973. Dissertation Abstracts International 34A (1973): 1913-14.

Galloway, Andrew. "The Economy of Need in Late Medieval English Literature." Viator 40 (2009), pp. 309-331. ISSN 0083-5897

Wood, Chauncey. "The Elements of Chaucer's Troilus." Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1984

Talbot, Charles H. The Elixir of Youth." In Beryl Rowland, ed. Chaucer and Middle English Studies in Honour of Rossell Hope Robbins. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1974, pp. 31-42.

Echard, Siân, and Robert Allen Rouse, eds. The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain. 4 vols. (Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2017).

Pearsall, Derek. "The English Chaucerians." In D. S. Brewer, ed. Chaucer and Chaucerians: Critical Studies in Middle English Literature (University: University of Alabama Press, 1966, pp. 222, 235.

Jonson, Ben. The English Grammar. London, 1640. Ed. A. V. Waite. New York: Sturgis and Walton, 1909, pp. 112, 115-18, 120-22, 124, 126-27, 130-31, 135, 137, 139, 141, 143, 145,

Carlson, David R. "The English Literature of Nájera (1367) from Battlefield Dispatch to the Poets." In John Gower in England and Iberia: Manuscripts, Influences, Reception. Ed. Ana Sáez-Hidalgo and R. F. Yeager. Publications of the John Gower Society X. Cambridge, UK: D. S. Brewer, 2014. Pp. 89-101.

Samuels, M.L. and Smith, J.J. "The English of Chaucer and His Contemporaries." Aberdeen: The University Press, 1988 ISBN 0080364039

Ward, Thomas Humphry, ed. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers. London and New York: Macmillan, 1880, 1:102-13.

Allen, Judson Boyce. "The Ethical Poetic of the Later Middle Ages: A Decorum of Convenient Distinction." Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982 ISBN 0802023703

Vincent, Robert Hudson. "The Excesses of Romance: Shakespeare's Pericles and the Baroque." The Shakespearean International Yearbook, 20: Special Section, "Pericles, Prince of Tyre," ed. Tom Bishop et al. New York: Routledge, 2024: 32-49.

Van Dijk, Conrad J. "The Exemplum As Legal Case: John Gower and the Limits of the Law." PhD thesis, University of Western Ontario, 2007.

McNally, Joseph Augustine. "The Exemplum in John Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'." Ph.D. Diss. University of South Carolina 1982. DAI 43(4): 1154A.

Mosher, Joseph Albert. The Exemplum in the Early Religious and Didactic Literature of England. New York: Columbia University Press, 1911, pp. 124-27.

Iwasaki, Haruo. "The Expression 'as he which' in Gower's Confessio Amantis." Geibun-Kenkyu Journal of Arts and Letters 58 (1990), pp. 231-40. ISSN 0435-1630

Reynolds, George P., and Garland Greever. The Facts and Backgrounds of Literature. New York: Century, 1920, pp. 29, 36, 70.

Meindl, Robert J. "The Failure of Counsel: Curial Corruption in Book VI of the Vox Clamantis." Accessus: A Journal of Premodern Literature and New Media 4 (2018): n.p. Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/accessus/vol4/iss1/2

Green, Richard Firth. "The Familia Regis and the Familia Cupidinis." In V. J. Scattergood and J. W. Sherborne, eds. English Court Culture in the Later Middle Ages (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983), pp. 87-108.

Butterfield, Ardis. "The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language and Nation in the Hundred Years War." Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009 ISBN 9780199574865

O'Callaghan, Tamara F. "The Fifteen Stars, Stones and Herbs: Book VII of the Confessio Amantis and its Afterlife." In Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation, and Tradition. Ed. Dutton, Elisabeth, and Hines, John, and Yeager, R.F. Cambridge: Brewer, 2010, pp. 139-56.

Santano Moreno, Bernardo. "The Fifteenth-Century Portuguese and Castilian Translations of John Gower, 'Confessio Amantis'." Manuscripta 35 (1991), pp. 23-34.

Feimer, Joel Nicholas. "The Figure of Medea in Medieval Literature: A Thematic Metamorphosis." Ph.D. Diss. City University of New York 1983. DAI 44(10): 3057A.

Schreiber, Earl George. "The Figure of Venus in Late Middle English Poetry." Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Illinois, 1969. Dissertation Abstracts International 31 (1970): 767A. Full-text available at ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.

Fredell, Joel. "The First Emergence of the Ricardian 'Confessio': Morgan M. 690." In Margaret Connolly, Holly James-Maddocks, and Derek Pearsall, eds. Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Linne R. Mooney (Woodbridge, Suff.: Boydell Press for York Medieval Press, 2022). Pp. 200-21.

Coleman, Joyce. "The Flower, the Leaf, and Philippa of Lancaster." In The Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception. Ed. Collette, Carolyn P. Chaucer Studies (36). Cambridge: Brewer, 2006, pp. 33-58. ISBN 9781843840718

Pattee, Fred Lewis. The Foundations of English Literature. Boston: Silver Burdett, 1899, pp. 107, 116, 117, 121, 135, 142, 168.

Gittes, Katharine Slater. "The Frame Narrative: History and Theory." Ph.D. Diss. University of California San Diego 1983. DAI 44.12: 1444A.

Clawson, W. H. "The Framework of the Canterbury Tales." University of Toronto Quarterly 20 (1951): 137-54. Reprinted in "Chaucer: Modern Essays in Criticism." Edited by Edward Wagenknecht. New York: Oxford University Press, 1959, pp 3-22.

Gower, John. "The French Balades." TEAMS Middle English Text Series . Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute, 2011 ISBN 9781580441551

Calin, William. "The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England." Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994

Bertolet, Craig E. "The French Works: Mirour de l'Omme." In Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, Brian Gastle, and R. F. Yeager, eds. The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower (Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 321-27.

Nicholson, Peter. "The French Works: The Ballades." In Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, Brian Gastle, and R. F. Yeager, eds. The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower (Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 312-20.

Röhrkasten, Jens. "The Friars." In Historians on John Gower. Ed. Stephen H. Rigby, with Siân Echard (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2019), pp. 291-320.

Conti, Aidan. "The Gem-Bearing Serpents of the Trinity Homilies: An Analogue for Gower's Confessio Amantis." Modern Philology 106 (2009), pp. 109-116.

Cady, Diane. The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature: Value and Economy in Late Medieval England. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. ISBN 978-3-030-26260-0 978-3-030-26261-7.

Pease, Ralph William III. The Genesis and Authorship of Pericles. Ph. D. Dissertation Texas A & M University, 1972. DAI 33 (1973): 4358A. Available online https://www.proquest.com/openview/4eabc22a721f9d492209f47bf7fda6a0/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

Pease, Ralph W., III. "The Genesis and Authorship of 'Pericles.'" Dissertation Abstracts International 33 (1973): 4358A.

Nitzsche, Jane Chance. "The Genius Figure in Antiquity and the Middle Ages." New York: Columbia University Press, 1975 ISBN 0231038526

Elias, Natanela. The Gnostic Paradigm: Forms of Knowing in English Literature of the Late Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Patch, Howard R. The Goddess Fortuna in Mediaeval Literature. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1927, pp. 24, 30 40, 47-49, 51, 53, 55-59, 61, 63-64, 66, 68, 70-72, 76-77, 79, 81, 83, 94, 97, 99-100, 102-05, 107-11, 113, 119, 121, 155-57, 166, 169.

Patch, Howard. The Goddess Fortuna in Mediaeval Literature. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1927. Rpt. New York: Octagon Books, 1967.

Williams, Lynn Flinckinger. "The Gods of Love in Ancient and Medieval Literature as Background of John Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'." Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1967. Dissertation Abstracts International 28 A4193.

Schaar, Claes. The Golden Mirror: Studies in Chaucer's Descriptive Technique and Its Literary Background. Lund: Cleerup, 1967, pp. 13, 68-70, 89, 90, 101, 223-24.

Fredell, Joel. "The Gower Manuscripts: Some Inconvenient Truths." Viator 41.1 (2010), pp. 231-50. ISSN 0083-5897

Pearsall, Derek. "The Gower Tradition." In Gower's Confessio Amantis: Responses and Reassessments. Ed. Minnis, A. J. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1983, pp. 179-198. ISBN 085991142X

Legge, Dominica. "The Gracious Conqueror." Modern Language Notes 68.1 (1953), pp. 18-21.

Burrow, John. "The Griffin's Egg: Gower's Confessio Amantis I 2545." In Chaucer to Shakespeare: Essays in Honour of Shinsuke Ando. Ed. Takamiya, Toshiyuki and Beadle, Richard. Cambridge: Brewer, 1992, pp. 81-85.

Dean, James M. "The Hag Transformed: 'The Tale of Florent,' Ethical Choice and Female Desire in Late Medieval England." In Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Ed. Yeager, R. F., and Gastle, Brian W. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2011, pp. 143-58. ISBN 9781603290999

Lawes, Rochie Whittington. "The Heaven of Fourteenth-Century English Poets: An Examination of the Paradisaical References in the English Works of Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and the 'Pearl' Poet." Ph.D. Diss. University of Mississippi 1984. DAI 45(4): 1111A.

Gaster, M. "The Hebrew Version of the Secretum Secretorum, a Medieval Treatise Ascribed to Aristotle." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (July-December, 1908): 1067-68.

Lynch, Kathryn L.. "The High Medieval Dream Vision: Poetry, Philosophy, and Literary Form." Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988

Wingfield-Stratford, Esme. The History of British Civilization. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1933, pp. 279-80.

Wingfield-Stratford, Esme. The History of English Patriotism. 2 vols. London: John Lane, 1913, I, 92, 93, 95, 97, 587.

Warton, Thomas. "The History of English Poetry from the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century." 3 vols. London: [Dodsley], 1774-1781. Variously expanded and reprinted.

Fuller, Thomas. The History of the Worthies of England. London: J. G. W. L. and W. G., for Thomas Williams, 1662, p. 207. Rev. ed., with additional notes by John Nichols. London. 1811, II, 513-14; London: Thomas Tegg, 1840, III, 426.

Middleton, Anne. "The Idea of Public Poetry in the Reign of Richard II." Speculum 53 (1978), pp. 94-114.

Howard, Donald. The Idea of the Canterbury Tales. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976, pp. 22, 23n, 46, 47-52, 53, 55, 60, 94, 110-11, 130, 131, 143, 152, 157, 184n, 225, 307, 308, 336.

Braeger, Peter C.. "The Illustrations in New College MS. 266 for Gower's Conversion Tales." In John Gower: Recent Readings. Papers Presented at the Meetings of the John Gower Society at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 1983-88. Ed. Yeager, R.F.. Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University, 1989, pp. 275-310.

Ohno, Hideshi. "The Impersonal and Personal Constructions in the Language of Chaucer." In Osamu Imahayashi, et al. eds., Aspects of the History of English Language and Literature: Selected Papers read at SHELL 2009, Hiroshima. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2010. Pp. 115-29.

Culver, T. D. "The Imposition of Order: A Measure of Art in the Man of Law's Tale." Yearbook of English Studies 2 (1972): 13-20.

Thomson, P.W. "The Influence of Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate on the Scottish Poets in the 15th and early 16th Centuries. B.Litt. Thesis. Oxford University, 1915.

Forster, James Joseph. The Influence of Medieval Mythography on John Gower. Ph.D. Dissertation. Duke University, 1973.

Mish, Frederick Crittenden. "The Influence of Ovid on John Gower's 'Vox clamantis'." Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Minnesota, 1973. Dissertation Abstracts International 34.11: 7198A. Full text available at ProQuest.

Robson, A. N. "The Influence of the 'Roman de la Rose' on the 'Confessio Amantis'." Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Cambridge, 1991. Index to Theses, with Abstracts: Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland 40.4 (1991), no. 7417.

Nicholson, Peter. "The Instructor's Library." In Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Ed. Yeager, R. F., and Gastle, Brian W. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2011, pp. 17-25. ISBN 9781603290999

Moorman, Frederic. The Interpretation of Nature in English Poetry from Beowulf to Shakespeare. Quellen und Forschungen zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte der Germanische Völker, no. 95. Strassburg: K. J. Trübner, 1905, pp. 122-24.

Bryan, J. Ingram. The Interpretation of Nature in English Poetry. Tokyo: Kaitakusha, 1932. Reprint. Folcroft Library, 1972, p. 71.

Braeger, Peter C.. "The Interrelationships of Text and Illustration in Some Middle English Literary Manuscripts." PhD thesis, Purdue University, 1986.

Haman, Mark Stefan. "The Introspective and Egocentric Quests of Character and Audience: Modes of Self-Definition in the York Corpus Christi Cycle and in Chaucer's Merchant's Tale." Ph. D. Diss. University of Rochester 1982. DAI 42(10): 4444A.

Holsinger, Bruce. "The Invention of Fire." New York: HarperCollins, 2015 ISBN 9780062356451

Nolan, Maura. "The Invention of Style." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 41 (2019): 33-71, A1-A12.

Carlson, David R. "The Invention of the Anglo-Latin Public Poetry (circa 1367-1402) and its Prosody, esp. in John Gower." Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 39 (2004), pp. 389-406. ISSN 0076-9762

Leland, John. The Itinerary of John Leland, the Antiquary. Oxford: Theatro Shedloniano, 1710-12, VI, 13.

McGerr, Rosemarie. "The Judge as Reader, the Reader as Judge: Literary and Legal Judgment in Dante, Machaut, and Gower." In R. Barton Palmer and Burt Kimmelman, eds. Machaut's Legacy: The Judgment Poetry Tradition in the Later Middle Ages and Beyond (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017), pp. 165-91.

Codling, Deborah Ann. The Kingly Style of Henry IV: Personality, Politics and Culture. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of London, Royal Holloway College, 2005. Dissertation Abstracts International C70.40. Abstract accessible via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.

Grady, Frank. "The Lancastrian Gower and the Limits of Exemplarity." Speculum 70 (1995), pp. 552-75.

Kendall, Elliot. The Landowner's Book of Courtly Love: Languages of Lordship and the "Confessio amantis." Ph.D. Dissertation.  University of Oxford, 2003. Dissertation Abstracts International C70.36. Abstract accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.

Samuels, M.L and Smith, J.J. "The Language of Gower." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 82 (1981), pp. 295-304. ISSN 0028-3754

Tarvers, Josephine Koster. The Language of Prayer in Middle English,1200-1400 (Medieval, Religious, Katherine Group, Chaucer). Ph.D. Dissertation. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1985. DAI-A 46.11. Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.

Friedman, Albert B. "The Late Medieval Ballade and the Origin of Broadside Balladry." Medium Aevum 27 (1958): 98-99.

Echard, Siân, trans., and Fanger, Clare, trans.. "The Latin Verses in the Confessio Amantis: An Annotated Translation." Medieval Texts and Studies, 7 . East Lansing, MI: Colleagues Press, 1991

Rigg, A. G. and Moore, Edward G. "The Latin Works: Politics, Lament and Praise." In A Comanion to Gower. Ed. Echard, Siân. Cambridge: Brewer, 2004, pp. 153-64.

Meindl, Robert J. "The Latin Works." In Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, Brian Gastle, and R. F. Yeager, eds. The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower (Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 341-54.

Behrend, Megan. "The Latinity of Middle English Literature: Form, Translation, and Vernacularization." Ph. D. Dissertation. University of Michigan, 2022. Restricted access; abstract available at https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/174649 (accessed January 27, 2023).

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Gardner, John. The Life and Times of Chaucer. New York: Knopf, 1977, pp. 16-17, 18, 59, 117, 128, 130, 136, 164, 225, 238, 249, 253, 255, 294.

Blades, William. The Life and Typography of William Caxton. 2 vols. London: Joseph Lilly, 1861-1863, I, 34, 64, 72-73; II, 139-43.

Pearsall, Derek. "The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Critical Biography." Oxford: Blackwell, 1992 ISBN 1557862052

Lewis, John. The Life of Mayster Wyllyam Caxton, of the Weald of Kent: The First Printer in England. London, 1737, pp. 79-81.

More, Brookes, ed. The Life, Works, and Approof of Ovid, Gathered Out of his own Works, and the Relations of Divers Faithful Authors, in Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Boston, 1923, vol. 2, vii-xxxiii.

Yunck, John A. The Lineage of Lady Meed: The Development of Medieval Veniality Satire. South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1963, pp. 262-65, 298.

Olsen, Alexandra Hennessey. "The Literary Impact of the Pun in Middle English Literature." In Geardagum: Essays on Old and Middle English 7 (1986): 17-36.

Theiner, Paul. "The Literary Uses of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381." In Actes du VIe Congres de l'Association Internationale de Litterature Comparée. Ed. Cadot, Michel, et al. Stuttgart: Erich Bieber, 1975, pp. 303-306.

Entwistle, William J., and Eric Gillett. The Literature of England, A.D. 500-1942. London: Longmans, Green, 1943, p. 21

Winstanley, William. The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets. London: Samuel, 1687, pp. 18-22.