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Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto
"This volume offers a novel paradigm for explaining late-medieval Anglo-Latin poetry, showing how the verse of the English poet John Gower (ca. 1330-1408), the pre-eminent Latin poet of the "Age of Chaucer," developed over the decades from 1370 to...
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Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Deutsches Institut für Erforschung des Mittelalters, Bibliothek
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"This volume offers a novel paradigm for explaining late-medieval Anglo-Latin poetry, showing how the verse of the English poet John Gower (ca. 1330-1408), the pre-eminent Latin poet of the "Age of Chaucer," developed over the decades from 1370 to 1400. In addition to writing poetry in and translating amongst English, French, and Latin, Gower invented a plain style for Latin "public poetry" that was emulated by other Anglo-Latin poets. However, at the end of his career he rejected his own Latin-verse invention to take up the late scholastic style at the moment of its decadence."
Gower’s Earliest Latin Poetry -- Gower and the Invention of Anglo-Latin Public Poetry -- Gower and Estates Satire before Chaucer -- Gower’s Historiography of 1381 and Prosody -- Gower’s Late Latin Style -- Appendix 1: Texts and Translations -- 1.1 Epitaphium Edwardi tercii (1377) -- 1.2 The John Ball Verses (ca. 1395) -- 1.3 The Blackfriars Council Verses (1382) -- 1.4 "Ecce dolet Anglia" (ca. 1360-1375) -- 1.5 Epilogus Apocalipsium (ca. 1376-1378) -- Appendix 2: Versification -- 2.1 Some Features of Gower’s Latin Verse -- 2.2 Couplet Formations, Pentameter Distribution, and Polyrhyme
