Theme and Structure in John Gower’s “Confessio Amantis.”
- Author/Editor
- Chapin, Donald F.
- Title
- Theme and Structure in John Gower’s “Confessio Amantis.”
- Published
- Chapin, Donald F. Theme and Structure in John Gower’s “Confessio Amantis.” Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Toronto, 1964. Dissertation Abstracts International A32.06. Restricted access at ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
- Review
- “The subject of the poem may be generally described as the failure of the individual moral responsibility, or more precisely as the failure of the individual’s rational faculty to regulate his will in the act of making a moral choice.” This failure produces sin, on many levels, including political, ecclesiastical, etc. Gower is working hard the idea of microcosm/macrocosm; loss of individual reason creates sin which creates loss of charity in the world. [RFY1981; rev. MA]
- Date
- 1964
- Gower Subjects
- Confessio Amantis