Medieval Poetics and John Gower's "Vox Clamantis."
- Author/Editor
- Kloesel, Christian Johannes Wilhelm.
- Title
- Medieval Poetics and John Gower's "Vox Clamantis."
- Published
- Kloesel, Christian Johannes Wilhelm. Medieval Poetics and John Gower's "Vox Clamantis." Ph.D, Dissertation. University of Kansas, 1973.
- Review
- Applies Geoffrey of Vinsauf's "Poetria nova" to VC; last chapter compares use of rhetoric in VC with CA and MO (all are judged "successful" uses of rhetoric and are designed to convince men to return to God-fearing behavior); sees Gower as an important rhetorician. [RFY1981]
- Date
- 1973
- Gower Subjects
- Style, Rhetoric, and Versification
Vox Clamantis
Confessio Amantis
Mirour de l'Omme (Speculum Meditantis)