A concordance to the French poetry and prose of John Gower / compiled by R.F. Yeager, Mark West, Robin L. Hinson ; with the assistance of Adrienne Hollifield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yeager, Robert F.

Contributor:

West, Mark, 1958-

Hinson, Robin L.

Hollifield, Adrienne.

Series:

Medieval texts and studies ; no. 17.

Medieval texts and studies ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Medieval, in literature--Indexes.

Civilization, Medieval, in literature.

Gower, John, 1325?-1408--Concordances.

Gower, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (912 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

That the poet John Gower was a major literary figure in England at the close of the fourteenth century is no longer in question. Scholarly attention paid to him and to his work over the past twenty- five years has redeemed him from an undeserved obscurity imposed by the preceding two hundred. The facts of his life and career are now documented, and recent critical assessment has placed his achievement most accurately alongside Chaucer's, Langland's, and the Gawain- poet's. Unique among his contemporaries, all of whom undoubtedly read and used French in some measure, Gower a

Notes:

"A Colleagues book."

ISBN:

1-60917-310-4

OCLC:

774285415