Deploring and Praying: John Gower in the Prologus in the "Confessio Amantis."

Author/Editor
Oiji, Takero.

Title
Deploring and Praying: John Gower in the Prologus in the "Confessio Amantis."

Published
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.

Review
Links Gower with Langland and the author of "Wynnere and Wastoure" as socially-minded poets, concerned about moral decline at the end of the fourteenth century. In Japanese; original publication includes English abstract [RFY1981; rev. MA]

Date
1970

Gower Subjects
Confessio Amantis