John Gower and "John of Bridlington": An Unnoticed Borrowing.
- Author/Editor
- Weiskott, Eric.
- Title
- John Gower and "John of Bridlington": An Unnoticed Borrowing.
- Published
- Weiskott, Eric. "John Gower and 'John of Bridlington': An Unnoticed Borrowing." Notes and Queries 68.2 (2021): 160-62.
- Review
- Weiskott asserts that a line cited by Lawrence Warner ("Latin Verses by John Gower and 'John of Bridlington' in a Piers Plowman Manuscript [BL 35287]," N&Q 55 [2008]: 127-31)--“Tristia post leta. post tristial sepe quieta”--as the opening line of the "Cronica Tripertita" part III is borrowed from Bridlington’s prophecy (160). Weiskott opines that Gower knew and used John Erghome’s Latin commentary on Bridlington, and suggests some of the structure of the "Cronica" may be based on Bridlington, noting as well that both Gower and Erghome had connections with Austin priories. He calls for “further source study and renewed attention to those aspects of Gower’s Latin poetry that reflect his immersion in the difficult and explosively popular genre of insular political prophecy” (162). [RFY. Copyright. The John Gower Society. eJGN 41.1]
- Date
- 2021
- Gower Subjects
- Cronica Tripertita
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Influence and Later Allusion