| John Gower, Poetry and Propaganda in Fourteenth-Century England Contributor(s): Carlson, David R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1843843153 ISBN-13: 9781843843153 Publisher: Boydell & Brewer OUR PRICE: $109.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Medieval - Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.1 |
| LCCN: 2012371316 |
| Series: Publications of the John Gower Society |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.4" (1.20 lbs) 254 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: John Gower has been criticised for composing verse propaganda for the English state, in support of the regime of Henry IV, at the end of his distinguished career. However, as the author of this book shows, using evidence from Gower's English, French and Latin poems alongside contemporary state papers, pamphlet-literature, and other historical prose, Gower was not the only medieval writer to be so employed in serving a monarchy's goals. Professor Carlson also argues that Gower's late poetry is the apotheosis of the fourteenth-century tradition of state-official writing which lay at the origin of the literary Renaissance in Ricardian and Lancastrian England. David Carlsonis Professor in the Department of English, University of Ottawa. |