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)