Literary Criticism (1400-1800)

Gower, John | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Nicholson, Peter. An Annotated Index to the Commentary on John Gower's Confessio Amantis. Binghamtom, N. Y.: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1989, 593 p.

Useful bibliography of criticism on Gower's masterwork.

Yeager, Robert F. John Gower Materials: A Bibliography through 1979. New York: Garland, 1981, 155 p.

Provides an annotated bibliography of Gower criticism and a list of editions of his works.

BIOGRAPHY

Fisher, John H. John Gower, Moral Philosopher and Friend of Chaucer. New York: New York University Press, 1964, 378 p.

The standard biography of the poet.

CRITICISM

Craun, Edwin D. “Confessing the deviant speaker: verbal deception in the Confessio Amantis.” In Lies, Slander, and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker, pp. 113-56. Cambridge:...

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