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Caxton, William, printer. Confessio Amantis. London: 1483.

Berthelette, Thomas, printer. De Confessione Amantis. London, 1532. 2nd ed. 1554.

Thynne, William, ed. The Works of Geffray Chaucer. London: Thomas Godfrey, 1532, n.p.

Bale, John. Illustrium Maioris Brytanniae, Hoc Est Angliae, Cambriae, ac Scotiae Summariu. London: John Overton, 1548, p. 524.

Puttenham, George. The Arte of English Poesie Contrived into Three Books; the First of Poets and Poesie, the Second of Proportion, the Third of Ornament. London: Richard Field, Printer, 1589, p. 48.

Sidney, Sir Philip. "The Defence of Poesie." The Prose Works of Philip Sidney. Vol. 3 of 4. Edited by Albert Feuillerat. Cambridge: MA: Harvard University Press, 1912. Reprinted 1962, 1963, 1968, p. 4.

Speght, Thomas, ed. The Workes of our Antient and Learned English Poet, Geoffrey Chaucer . . . etc. London: George Bishop, 1598, b, iii; fol. 330v-331v. [STC 5077].

Stow, John. A Survey of London. London: J. Wolfe, 1598. Reprint, ed. William Thomas. London, 1842, p. 152; and ed. C. L. Kingsford. Oxford: Clarendon, 1908, II, 57-59.

Stow, John. The Annales of England. London: 1600, pp. 439, 528.

Pits, John. Relationum Historicarum de Rebus Anglicis, Tomus Primus Quatuor Partes Complectens, Quorum Elenchum Pagina Indicat. Paris: R. Thierry and S. Cramoray, 1619, pp. 575-77.

London 1622. New York: De Capo Press; Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1968. Facsimile reprint of STC No. 19502.

Weever, John. Ancient Funeral Monuments within the United Monarchies of Great Britain. London: Thomas Harper, 1631, p. 270.

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,

Milton, John. An Apology Against a Pamphlet Called Modest Confutation of the Animadversions Upon a Remonstrance Against Smectymnus. London, 1642. Reprint. Complete Prose Works of John Milton, 1:1624-42. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1953, pp. 946-47.

Ashmole, Elias, ed. Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum: Containing Severall Poeticall Pieces of our Famous English Philosophers, who have Written the Hermetique Mysteries in their owne Ancient Language. London: Nathanial Brooks, 1652, pp. 368-73 and 484-86.

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.

Phillips, Edward. Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum. London, 1675. Enlarged by Sir Egerton Brydges. London and Canterbury: J. White, 1800, pp. 12-17.

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

Dryden, John. "Preface to The Fables, 1700." In Selected Works of John Dryden. Edited by William Frost. New York: Holt, Reinhart, and Winston, 1967, p. 397.

Leland, John. Commentarii de Scriptoribus Britannicus. Oxford: Theatro Shedloniano, 1709, I, 414-16.

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

Jacob, Giles. An Historical Account of the Lives and Writings of Our Most Considerable English Poets. London, 1720. Reprint. New York: Garland, 1970, pp. 66-68.

Urry, John, ed. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. London: Bernard Lintot, 1721, pp. 540-43.

Anstis, John. Register of the Garter. London: Order of the Garter, 1724, II, 116.

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

Cooper, Mrs. [Elizabeth], assisted by William Oldys. The Muses Library; or a Series of English poetry, from the Saxons, to the Reign of King Charles II. London, 1737, pp, 19-22. Also published as The Historical and Poetical Medley; or, Muses Library . . . , etc. London: T. Davis, 1738.

Biographia Britannica, Or, the Lives of the Most eminent Persons Who Have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland From the earliest Ages, Down to the present Time: Collected from the best Authorities, both Printed and Manuscript, And digested in the Manner of Mr Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary. London: Printed for W. Innys, W. Meadows, J. Walthoe, T. Cox, A. Ward, J. and P. Knapton, T. Osborne, S. Birt, D. Browne, T. Longman and T. Shewell, H. Whitridge, R. Hett, C. Hitch, T. Astley, S. Austen, C. Davis, R. Manby and H.S. Cox, C. Bathurst, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, J. Robinson, J. Hinton, J. and J. Rivington, and M. Cooper, 1747-1766. 6 vols. in 7, continuously paginated. Volume 4: 2242-51.

Tanner, Thomas. Bibliotecha Britannico-Hibernica. London: Society for the Promotion of Letters, pp. 335-37

Cibber, Theophilus. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland to the Time of Dean Swift. London: R. Griffith, 1753, I, 20-23.

Johnson, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language. London: J. & P. Knapton, 1755, n.p.

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.

Bell, John, printer. The Poetical Works of Geoff. Chaucer in Fourteen Volumes: The Miscellaneous Pieces from Urry's edition 1721, The Canterbury Tales from Tyrwhitt's edition 1775. Edinburg: Apollo Press, 1782. Vol. XIII, pp. 139-53.

Herbert, William. Typographical Antiquities: Or an Historical Account of the Origin and Progress of Printing in Great Britain and Ireland: Containing Memoirs of Our Ancient Printers, and a Register of Books Printed by Them, from the Year MCCCCLXXI to the Year MDC. London: T. Payne and Son, 1785, pp. 45, 419, 456.

Gough, Richard. Sepulchral Monuments in Great Britain. London: J. Nicols, 1796, II, 24-26.

Ellis, George. "Specimens of the Early English Poets, to which is prefixed an historical sketch of the rise and progress of the English Poetry and Language; in three volumes." London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1801

Ritson, Joseph. Bibliographia Poetica: A Catalogue of English Poets of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Centuries with a Short Account of Their Works. London: G. & W. Nichol, 1803, pp, 24-25

Brydges, Sir Egerton. Censura literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English Books, with Original Disquisitions, Articles of Biography, and Other Literary Antiquities. Vols. 9-10. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809, pp. 346-58.

Todd, Rev. Henry J. "Illustrations of the Lives and Writings of Gower and Chaucer collected from authentic documents." London: Woodfall, 1810

Chalmers, Alexander, ed. The Works of the English Poets. 21 vols. London: J. Johnson, 1810, Volume 2:7-274.

Brunet, Jacque-Charles. Manuel du Librairie et de l’Amateur de Livres. Paris: Brunet-Leblanc, 1810.

Dibdin, Thomas Frognall. Typographical Antiquities: Or, the History of Printing in England, Scotland, and Ireland. London: J. Murray, 1810-1816, I, 177-85; III, 278, 340. [Alternative title: Typographical Antiquities: Or, the History of Printing in Great Britain].

Ellis, George, ed. Specimens of the Early English Poets: To Which is Prefixed, an Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Poetry and Language. 3 vols. 4th ed., corrected, London: Hurst, Reed, Orme, and Brown, 1811, 1:169-200.

Brydges, Sir Egerton, and Joseph Haslewood. The British Bibliographer. London: R. Triphook, 1812, II, 1-4.

Dibdin, Thomas Frognall. Bibliotheca Spenceriana: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century and of Many Valuable First Editions in the Library of George John, Lord Spencer. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, 1814-23, IV, 266.

"Notes on the History of Wearing 'SS' Collars." Gentleman's Magazine 51 (1815): 109-10.

John Gower: Balades and Other Poems. Printed from the Original Manuscript in the Library of the Marquis of Stafford at Trentham. Roxburghe Club, [no. 19]. London: W. Bulmer, 1818.

Campbell, Thomas, ed. Specimens of the British Poets. 7 vols. London: John Murray, 1819, II: 52-58.

Sanford, Ezekial, ed. The Works of the British Poets, with Lives of the Authors. [25 vols.] Philadelphia: Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819, 1:219-55.

Ebert, Friedrich. Algemeins Bibliographisches Lexicon. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1821, I, 697.

Watt, Robert. Bibliotecha Britannica: A General Index to British and Foreign Literature. Edinburgh: A. Constable, 1824, p. 430q.

Hain, Ludovici. Repertorium bibliographicum, in quo libri omnes ab arte typographica inventa usque ad annum MD . . . etc. Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta, 1826, I, ii, 490.

Blore, Edward. The Monumental Remains of Noble and Eminent Persons, Comprising the Sepulchral Antiquities of Great Britain. London: Harding, Lepard, 1826, pp. 1-16.

Nicolas, Sir Nicholas Harris. "John Gower, the Poet." Retrospective Review and Historical and Antiquarian Magazine 2 (1828), pp. 103-117.

Clarke, Charles C. The Riches of Chaucer. London: E. Wilson, 1835, I, 35.

Chambers, Robert. History of the English Language and Literature. Hartford, CT: Edward Hopkins, 1837, p. 13.

Collier, J. Payne, ed. Shakespeare's Library: A Collection of the Romances, Novels, Poems, and Histories, used by Shakespeare . . . , etc. 2 vols. London: Thomas Rodd, 1843, 1:259-312.

Craik, George L. Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England from the Norman Conquest to the Accession of Elizabeth. 2 vols. London: Charles Knight, 1844, II, 90-101.

Campbell, Thomas. An Essay on English Poetry: With Notices of the English Poets. London: J. Murray, 1848, pp. 135-36.

Coxe, Rev. H. O., ed. Poema quod dicitur Vox clamantis, necnon Chronica tripartita. London: Roxburghe Club, 1850. Unrestricted access at http://mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10800469-2. Accessed June 15, 2022.

Chambers, Robert, ed. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical of British Authors from the Earliest to the Present Times. London: W. & R. Chambers, 1854, volume I, pp. 23-25.

Reed, Henry. Lectures on English Literature from Chaucer to Tennyson. Philadelphia: Parry and Macmillan, 1855, p. 127.

Pauli, Reinhold, ed. The Confessio Amantis of John Gower. 3 vols. London: Bell and Daldy, 1857.

Reed, Henry. Lectures on the British Poets. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: Parry & McMillan, 1857, pp. 49, 92-93. .

Anonymous,. "John Gower and his Works." The British Quarterly Review 27.53 (1858), pp. 3-36.

British Quarterly Review 27 (1858): 3-36.

Wright, Thomas, ed. Political Poems and Songs Relating to English History. 2 vols. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1859, 1:417-54.

Bartsch, Karl. Albrecht von Halberstadt und Ovid im Mittelalter Bibliothek der gesammten deutschen National-Literatur von der altesten bis auf die neuere Zeit. Quedlinburg und Leipzig: Gottfried Basse, 1861, pp. xix, xxv, xlvii, lix, lxvi.

Pauli, Reinhold. Pictures of Old England. Translated by E.C. Otto. London: Macmillan, 1861, pp. 212-16, 220-26. Argues

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

Ebert, Adolf. "Die Handschriften der Escorial-Bibliothek aus dem Gebiete der Romanischen Literaturen, sowie der Englischen." Jahrbuch für Romanische end Englische Literatur 4 (1862): 46-69, esp. 69.

Taine, Hippolyte. Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise. 2 vols. Paris: Hachette, 1863, I, 203ff. Translated by Henry Van Laun. History of English Literature. New York: Holt and Williams, 1871, I, 74, 136.

Corner, George R. "Observations on four Illuminations representing the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, at Westminster, from a MS. of the time of King Henry VI." Archaeologia 39, II (1863): 357-72.

Collier, William Francis. A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical Sketches. London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1865. pp. 61-63.

Craik, George L. A Manual of English Literature and the History of the English Language from the Norman Conquest. 5th ed. London: Charles Griffin, 1865, pp. 155-57.

Warwick, W. "On Gower, The Kentish Poet, His Character and Works." Archaeologia Cantiana (1866), pp. 83-107.

Child, F. J. "Observations on the Language of Gower's Confessio Amantis: A Supplement to Observations on the Language of Chaucer." Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. New Series, 9, part 1 (1867): 265-315.

Collier, William Francis. A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical Sketches. London: Thomas Nelson, 1867, pp. 61-63.

Mätzner, E. A. F., ed. Altenglischen Sprachproben. 2 vols. in 3. Berlin: Wiedmann, 1867-1900, 1:349-57.

Knust, Hermann. "Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Escorial-bibliothek." Jahrbuch für Romanische und Englische Literatur 10 (1869): 165.

Corson, Hiram, ed. Handbook of Anglo-Saxon and Early English. New York: Holt and Williams, 1871, pp. 316-27.

Ellis, Alexander John. On Early English Pronunciation, with Special Reference to Shakespeare and Chaucer, etc. . . . 5 vols. London, 1871, 3:728-39.

Lowell, James Russell. My Study Windows. Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1871, pp. 252, 258-60

Russell, W. Clark. The Book of Authors. London: Warne, 1871, p. 2.

Beeton, Samuel Orchart, and William Michael Rossetti, eds. Encyclopaedia of English and American Poetry, from Caedmon and King Alfred's Boethius to Browning and Tennyson. 2 vols. London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1873, volume 1: items 29-31.

Morley, Henry. A First Sketch of English Literature. London: Cassell, 1873, pp, 129-31, 138-45, 156-59, 160-63, 178, 213, 309, 475, 744.

Johnson, Richard Malcolm, and William Hand Browne. English Literature: A Historical Sketch of English Literature from the Earliest Times. New York: University Publishing, 1873, p. 53.

Wood, Alexander. Ecclesiastical Antiquities of London and Its Suburbs. London: Burns and Oates, 1874, pp. 78-88.

Minto, William. Characteristics of English Poets, from Chaucer to Shirley. London: W. Blackwood, 1874, pp. 71-76.

Gätschenberger, S. Geschichte der englischen dichtkunst nebst einer skizze der wissenschaftlichen Literatur England's. London: Wohlauer, 1874, p. 29

Wülker, Richard Paul, ed. Altenglisches Lesebuch. 2 parts. Halle: Niemeyer, 1874-1879, 2:36-47.

Thynne, Francis. "Animaduersions vppon the Annotacions and Corrections of some imperfections of impressiones on Chaucer's workes." Early Early Text Society . London: Trübner, 1875

Backus, Truman J. Shaw's New History of English Literature. New York: Sheldon, 1875. Rev. ed. 1884, pp. 59-60.

[Hazlitt, William Carew, ed.] Shakespeare's Library: A Collection of the Plays, Romances, Novels, Poems, and Histories Employed by Shakespeare in the Composition of His Work. 2nd ed. 6 vols. London: Reeves and Turner, 1875, 4:181-228.

Arnold, Thomas. A Manual of English Literature Historical and Critical. Boston: Ginn, 1876, pp. 35, 36, 38.

Corser, Rev. Thomas, ed. Collectanea Anglo-Poetica: Or, A Bibliographical and Descriptive Catalogue of a Portion of a Collection of Early English Poetry. Manchester: Chetham Society, 1877, 7:36-44.

Morris, Richard, and Walter W. Skeat, eds. Specimens of early English. New and rev. ed. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879-1882, 2:270-81.

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

Schipper, J. Englische Metrik in historischer und systematischer Entwicklung dargestellt. Bonn: E. Strauss, 1881, I, 279-80, 427, 483-88.

Hales, John. "The Confessio Amantis." Athenaeum, No. 2826 (December, 1881): 851-53.

Nicholson, Edward B. "Mispunctuation in Gower and Ronsard." Academy, No. 487 (September, 1881): 182.