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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.

Gastle, Brian W. "Electronic Resources." 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. 26-28. ISBN 9781603290999

Cortijo Ocaña, Antonio. "El Libro VI de la Confessio Amantis." Revista de Literatura Medieval 22 (2010), pp. 11-74. ISSN 1130-3611

Cortijo Ocaña, Antonio. "El libro VI de la Confessio Amantis." eHumanista 8 (2007), pp. 38-72. ISSN 1540 5877

Alvar, Manuel. "El Clerc de John Gower y su polivalencia en Juan de Cuenca." In Hispanic Studies in Honor of Joseph H. Silverman. Ed. Ricapito, Joseph V.. Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, Series Homenajes (5). Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 1988, pp. 1-13.

Spies, Heinrich. "Ein Lexicographisches Experiment." Verein Deutscher Philologen und Schulmänner 8 (1905): 161-62.

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

Doob, Penelope Billings Reed. "Ego Nabugodonosor: A Study of Conventions of Madness in Middle English Literature." Ph.D. Dissertation. Stanford University, 1970. Dissertation Abstracts International 31.04 (1970): 1755A. Full text accessible via ProQuest Theses & Dissertations Global.

Edwards, A. S. G. "Edward Thomas on Gower." In Studies in the Age of Gower: A Festschrift in Honour of R. F. Yeager. Ed. Susannah Mary Chewning. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020. Pp. 11-20.

Sobecki, Sebastian I. "Educating Richard: Incest, Marriage, and (Political) Consent in Gower's 'Tale of Apollonius'." Anglia 125 (2007), pp. 205-16.

Renwick, W. L. Edmund Spenser: An Essay on Renaissance Poetry. London: Edward Arnold, 1925. 5th reprinting, 1964, p. 67.

Harrison, Ann Tukey. "Echo and Her Medieval Sisters." Centennial Review 26 (1982): 324-40.

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

Fumo, Jamie C. "Eating Well/Well Eaten: Lot's Wife's Folly and the Wisdom of Salt in 'Cleanness.'" Exemplaria 30.2 (2023): 141-62.

Gerber, Amanda J. "Earthly Gower: Transforming Geographical Texts and Images in the Confessio Amantis and Vox Clamantis Manuscripts." In Martha Driver, Derek Pearsall, and R. F. Yeager, eds. John Gower in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books. Publications of the John Gower Society, no. 14. Rochester, NY: Brewer, 2020. Pp. 89-112.

Pearsall, Derek. "Early Revision in the Text of Gower's Confessio Amantis." Journal of the Early Book Society 24 (2021): 247-61.

Blake, N. F.. "Early Printed Editions of Confessio Amantis." Mediaevalia 16 (1993), pp. 289-306.

Clark, John W. Early English: A Study of Old and Middle English. 2nd ed., rev. London: Andre Deutsch, 1967, pp. 14-41, 148.

Pancoast, Henry S., and John Duncan Spaeth, eds. Early English Poems. New York: Holt, 1911, pp. 224-30.

Rajendran, Shyama. "E(Race)ing the Future: Imagined Medieval Reproductive Possibilities and the Monstrosity of Power." In Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World, ed. Richard H. Godden and Asa Simon Mittman (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 127-43.

Martins, Mário, S. J. "Dum Poema inglês de John Gower e da sua tradução do português para o castelhano." Didaskalia 9 (1979), pp. 413-432. ISSN 0253-1674

Lawton, David. "Dullness and the Fifteenth Century." ELH 54.4 (1987): 761-99.

Zaerr, Linda Marie. "Duke or Duck: Reading the Stories in John Gower's Confessio Amantis." Willamette Journal of the Liberal Arts 4 (1988), pp. 1-9. ISSN 0740-6789

Davenport, W. A. "Dreams in Gower's Confessio Amantis." English Studies 91 (2010), pp. 374-97. ISSN 0013-838X

Weiskott, Eric. "Dreaming of Cicero in John Gower's 'Cultor in Ecclesia'." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 36.4 (2023): 462–63.

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Morgan, F. C. "Dr. William Brewster of Hereford (1665-1715), a Benefactor of Libraries." Medical History 8 (2 April 1964): 137-48.

Davies, R. Trevor, compiler. Documents Illustrating the History of Civilization in Medieval England, 1066-1500. New York: Dutton; London: Methuen, 1926, pp. 253-63.

White, Hugh. "Division and Failure in Gower's Confessio Amantis." Neophilologus 72 (1988), pp. 600-616. ISSN 0028-2677

Alberghini, Jennifer. Divided Loyalties: Family and Consent to Marriage in Late Middle English Literature, 1300-1500. Ph.D. Dissertation. City University of New York, 2019. Dissertation Abstracts International A80.08(E). Abstract accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. Fully accessible via https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/3085/ (accessed April 1, 2026).

Cawsey, Kathy. "Disorienting Orientalism: Finding Saracens in Strange Places in Late Medieval English Manuscripts." Exemplaria 21 (2009), pp. 380-97. ISSN 1041-2573

Allen-Goss, Lucy M. "Dismembered Memories: Philomela in Chaucer and Gower." Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature, edited by Sarah Baechle, Carissa M. Harris, and Elizaveta Strakhov. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2022. Pp. 80-96.

Epstein, Robert. "Dismal Science: Chaucer and Gower on Alchemy and Economy." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 36 (2014), pp. 209-48. ISSN 0190-2407

Steadman, John. Disembodied Laughter: Troilus and the Apotheosis Tradition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972, pp. 105-06, 113, 115, 117, 138, 146, 148, 150, 153

Duprey-Henry, Annalese. "Disciplining the Heart: Lovesickness in Medieval Literature." Ph.D. Dissertation, Northwestern University, 2019. 262 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International A81.06(E) (2019). Full text accessible at ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (restricted); accessed February 21, 2022.

Thomsen, Kerri Lynne. Disappearing Daughters: Proserpina and Medea in the Works of Spenser and Shakespeare. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1994. Dissertation Abstracts International A55.08. Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.

Hsy, Jonathan. "Disability." The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature, edited by David Hillman and Ulrika Maude. Cambridge UP, 2015. pp. 24-40.

Bihl, Josef. "Die Wirkungen der Rhythmus in der Sprache von Chaucer und Gower." Heidelberg: Carl Winters, 1916

Baake, Wilhelm. Die Verwendung des Traummotivs in der Englischen Dichtung bis auf Chaucer. Ph.D. Dissertation. Halle University, 1906. Halle: Heinrich John, 1906.

Eichinger, Karl. "Die Trojasage als Soffquelle für John Gower's Confessio Amantis." PhD thesis, Kgl. Bayer. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität zu München, 1900.

Narr, Alfred. Die Syntax in John Gowers Confessio Amantis. Ph.D. dissertation. Vienna University, 1926

Brunner, Karl. "Die Quellen von Ben Jonson's 'Volpone'." Archiv für Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literature 152, n.s. 52 (1927): 218-19.

Glunz, H. H. Die Literarasthetik des Europaischen Mittelalters. Bochum-Langendreer: H. Pöppinghaus, 1937. pp. 349-52.

Förg, B. Die Konjunktionen in Gowers Confessio Amantis. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Heidelberg, 1910. Tübingen: H. Laupp, 1911.

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.

Lücke, Emil. "Das Leben der Constanze bei Trivet, Gower, und Chaucer." Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Leipzig, 1891.

Lüdeke, H. Die Funktionen des Erzählers in Chaucers epischer Dichtung. Halle: Max Niemeyer, 1928, pp. 5-6, 13, 14, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 36, 40, 41, 43, 44, 48.

Klebs, Elimar. Die Erzählung von Apollonius von Tyrus: Eine geschichtliche Untersuchung über lateinische Urform und ihre späteren Bearbeitungen. Berlin: G. Reimer, 1899, pp. 462-71.

Lüdeke, Henry. Die englischen Literatur: Ein kultur-historischer Umriss. Bern: Franke, 1954, pp. 23-24.

Heckt, Hans, and Levin Schucking. Die Englische Literatur im Mittelalter. Wildpark-Potsdam: Akademische Verigsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1927, pp. 70, 108, 109-12, 113, 117 126, 131, 149, 152.

Görbing, F. "Die Ballade 'The Marriage of Sir Gawain' in ihren Beziehungen zu Chaucers 'Wife of Bath's Tale' und Gowers Erzählung von Florent." Anglia 23 (1900), pp. 405-423.

Lord, M. L. "Dido as an Example of Chastity: The Influence of Example Literature." Harvard Library Bulletin 17 (January and April, 1969): 22-44, 216-32.

Jones, Terry. "Did John Gower Rededicate His 'Confessio Amantis' before Henry IV's Usurpation?" In Middle English Texts in Transition: A Festschrift Dedicated to Toshiyuki Takamiya on his 70th Birthday. Ed. Horobin, Simon, and Mooney, Linne R. Woodbridge, Suffolk: York Medieval Press/Boydell and Brewer, 2014, pp. 40-74. ISBN 9781903153536

Yeager, R.F. "Did Gower Write Cento?" In 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.. Studies in Medieval Culture (26). Kalamazoo, MI: Western Micigan University, 1989, pp. 113-32.

Yeager, Isabella Neale. "Did Gower Love His Wife? And What Has It to Do with the Poetry?" Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic-Literary Studies 73 (2010), pp. 67-86. ISSN 0287-1629

Scala, Elizabeth. "Did Chaucer Know Livy?" Notes and Queries 68 [266] (2021): 255-58.

Spencer, Alice. "Dialogues of Love and Government: A Study of the Erotic Dialogue Form in Some Texts from the Courtly Love Tradition." Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2007 ISBN 9781847181855

Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions. Essays in Honour of Derek Pearsall. Ed. A. J. Minnis. York: York Medieval Press, 2001, pp. 57-75.

Guthrie, Steve. "Dialogics and Prosody in Chaucer." In Bakhtin and Medieval Voices. Ed. Farrell, Thomas J.. Gainesville: University of Florda Press, 1995, pp. 94-108.

Beidler, Peter G. "Diabolical Treachery in the Tale of Nectanabus." In John Gower's Literary Transformations in the Confessio Amantis: Original Articles and Translations. Ed. Beidler, Peter G. Washington, D. C.: University Press of America, 1982, pp. 83-90. ISBN 081915962

Echard, Siân. "Designs for Reading: Some Manuscripts of Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'." Trivium 31 (1999), pp. 59-72.

Meech, Sanford B. Design in Chaucer's Troilus. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1959, pp. 18, 130, 137, 376.

Stone, Zachary E. "Descriptive Catalogue of Eight Medieval Manuscripts from Wadham College, Oxford." The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 21 (2020): 445-76.

Blatt, Heather. "Describing Miscellanies in Late Medieval English Wills." The Huntington Library Quarterly 85 (2022): 683-704.

Yeager, R. F. "Derek Pearsall and John Gower." Chaucer Review 58, nos. 3-4 (2023): 481-93.

Schneider, Rudolf. "Der Monch in der englischen Dichtung bis auf Lewis's 'Monk,' 1795." Palaestra 155 (1928): 46-50.

Naunin, Traugott. Der Einfluss der mittelalterlichen Rhetorik auf Chaucers Dichtung. Bonn, 1929, Excurs I, 57-60.

Eberhard, Oscar. "Der Bauernaufstand vom Jahre 1381 in der englischen Poesie." Anglistische Forschungen 51 (1916): 13-15, 37-43.

Hodgson-Jones, T. J.  Deposition and the Absolute King: The 'Confessio Amantis' and Gower's Philosophy of Kingship. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of London, King's College, 2006. Dissertation Abstracts International C70.45. Abstract accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.

Oiji, Takero. "Deploring and Praying: John Gower in the Prologus in the 'Confessio Amantis'." Bunka 36 (1970): 1012. Reprinted as Chapter 1 in "14 Seiki no Eibungaku" [English in the Fourteenth Century]. Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1976.

Spies, Heinrich. "Den Gegenwärtigen Stand der Gower--Forschung and eine Kritische Neuausgabe der Confessio Amantis." Englische Studien 27 (1900): 466-48.

Sharp, Joseph Ethan Blaine. "Definitions and Depictions of Rhetorical Practice in Medieval English Fürstenspiegel." PhD. Dissertation. University of Louisville, 2022. Open access at https://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd/3849 (accessed January 28, 2023).

Nafde, Aditi. Deciphering the Manuscript Page: The "Mise-en-Page" of Chaucer, Gower, and Hoccleve Manuscripts. D.Phil Dissertation. University of Oxford, 2012. viii, 268 pp.; 11 illus. Dissertation Abstracts International C73.08 and C81.07(E). Fully accessible at https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b2c67783-b797-494a-b792-368c14d1fe49. Abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.

Minnis, A. J. "De Vulgari Auctoritate: Chaucer, Gower and Men of Great Authority." In Chaucer and Gower: Difference, Mutuality, Exchange. Ed. Yeager, R.F.. ELS Monograph Series (51). Victoria, B.C.: English Literary Studies, 1991, pp. 36-74.

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

Walz, Gotthard. "Das Sprichwort bei Gower, mit besonderem Hinweis auf Quellen und Parallelen." Nördlingen: Beck, 1907

Kröllreutter, Maria. Das Privatleben in England nach den Chaucer, Gower, und Langland. Halle: E. Karras, 1908.

Eichhorn, Ernst. Das Partizipium bei Gower in Vergleich mit Chaucer Gebrauch. Ph.D. dissertation. Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 1912. Kiel: H. Fiencke, 1912.

Lücke, Emil. "Das Leben der Constanze bei Trivet, Gower, und Chaucer." Anglia 14 (1892), pp. 77-122.

Bertolet, Craig E. "Dark Money: Gower, Echo, and 'Blinde Avarice'." Accessus 5.2 (2019): n.p.

Toynbee, Paget. Dante in English Literature from Chaucer to Cary. London: Methuen, 1909, I, 17

Dédéyan, Charles. "Dante en Angleterre: John Gower." Les Lettres Romanes 13 (1959): 177-79.

Cook, Albert S. "Dante and Gower." Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 132 (1914), p. 395.

Sedgwick, Henry D. Dan Chaucer: An Introduction to the Poet, His Poetry and His Times. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1934, pp. 48, 248.

Berndt, Elsa. Dame Nature in der Englischen Literatur bis Herab zu Shakespeare. Paleastra, no. 110. Leipzig: Mayer and Müller, 1923, pp. 43-45, 70.

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.

Tinkle, Theresa Lynn. "Cupid and Venus, Chaucer and Company." PhD thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 1989.

Weiskott, Eric. "Cumulative Revision in John Gower's 'Quicquid Homo Scribat'." English Studies 103 (2022): 547-54.

Siberry, Elizabeth. "Criticism of Crusading in Fourteenth-Century England." In Crusade and Settlement: Papers read at the First Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East and presented to R.C. Smail. Ed. Edbury, Peter W.. Cardiff: University College Press, 1985, pp. 127-34.

Urban, Malte. "Cracks and Fissures: Gower's Poetics on the Edge." ES: Revista de Filología Inglesa 33.1 (2012), pp. 155-70. ISSN 0210-9689

Stoyanoff, Jeffery G. "Covetousness in Book V of Confessio Amantis: A Medieval Precursor to Neoliberalism." Accessus: A Journal of Premodern Literature and New Media 4 (2018). Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/accessus/vol4/iss1/2

Lochrie, Karma. "Covert Operations: The Medieval Uses of Secrecy." Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999 ISBN 0812234731

West, C. B. Courtoisie in Anglo-Norman Literature. Oxford: Blackwell, 1938, p. 123.

Dodd, William George. "Courtly Love in Chaucer and Gower." Boston: Ginn, 1913

Fitzpatrick, John F. "Courtly Love and the Confessional in English Literature from 1215 to John Gower." Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University, 1978. Dissertation Abstracts International A39.02. Full text accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses; accessed December 5, 2022.

John Lawlor, ed. Patterns of Love and Courtesy: Essays in Memory of C. S. Lewis. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1966, pp. 54-85. Reprinted in Helaine Newstead, ed. Chaucer and His Contemporaries: Essays on Medieval Literature and Thought. Greenwich Conn.: Fawcett, pp. 310-35.

Stallcup, Stephen Burr. "Counseling the King: Scenes of Monarchic Instruction in the Age of Richard II." Ph.D. Diss. Princeton University 2000. DAI 61(1): 172-73.

Perry. R. D. Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition: From Chaucer to Spenser. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024.

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