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A concordance to the French poetry and prose of John Gower /

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 fa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Yeager, Robert F.
Other Authors: West, Mark, 1958-, Hinson, Robin L., Hollifield, Adrienne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Old French
Published: East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press, 1997.
Series:Medieval texts and studies ; no. 17.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Item Description:"A Colleagues book."
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9781609173104
1609173104
0870134744
9780870134746