John Gower (/ˈɡaʊ.ər/; c. 1330 – October 1408) was an English poet, a contemporary of William Langland and the Pearl Poet, and a personal friend of Geoffrey...

John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower, PC (10 August 1694 – 25 December 1754) was an English Tory politician and peer who twice served as Lord Privy Seal...

This is a list of people named John Gower John Gower (c. 1330 – October 1408), English poet John Gower (politician) (January 10, 1941 – December 10, 2011)...

one crying out") is a Latin poem of 10,265 lines in elegiac couplets by John Gower (1330 – October 1408) . The first of the seven books is a dream vision...

Amantis ("The Lover's Confession") is a 33,000-line Middle English poem by John Gower, which uses the confession made by an ageing lover to the chaplain of...

1833 for George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford. A series of marriages to heiresses by members of the Leveson-Gower family made the dukes of...

John C. Gower (January 10, 1941 – December 10, 2011) was an American Republican politician. Born in Kankakee, Illinois, Gower received his bachelor and...

John Leveson-Gower may refer to: John Leveson-Gower, 1st Baron Gower (1675–1709), English politician John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower (1694–1754), English...

John Leveson-Gower, 1st Baron Gower PC (7 January 1675 – 31 August 1709), styled Sir John Leverson-Gower, 5th Baronet, from 1691–1703, was an English peer...

Saul, Nigel (2010). "John Gower: Prophet or Turncoat?". In Dutton, Elizabeth; Hines, John; Yeager, R. F. (eds.). John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language...

poem of 29,945 lines written in iambic octosyllables by John Gower (c. 1330 – October 1408). Gower's major theme is man's salvation. Internal evidence (no...

Poulter. Restored in 1851, it is a grade I listed building. In August 1382 John Gower purchased the manors of Feltwell in Norfolk and Multon in Suffolk. They...

fifth of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, written around 1387. John Gower's "Tale of Constance" in Confessio Amantis tells the same story and may...

centuries before Chaucer's time, and several of Chaucer's contemporaries—John Gower, William Langland, the Pearl Poet, and Julian of Norwich—also wrote major...

little is known about his early life except that he was a grandson of Sir John Gower of Stittenham, North Yorkshire. His earliest documented works are the...

and global medieval literature. Sobecki was awarded the John Hurt Fisher Prize by the John Gower Society and has held fellowships from Harvard University...

John Howard James Gower (28 July 1960 - 12 February 2024), CB OBE, was a former British Royal Navy commander. He served as the Assistant Chief of the...

in the 1380s by Geoffrey Chaucer, in his The Legend of Good Women, and John Gower, in his Confessio Amantis, and by Shakespeare in Act V, sc 1 of A Midsummer...

service of John of Gaunt, and wrote The Book of the Duchess as a eulogy to Gaunt's wife Blanche. Chaucer's colleague and friend John Gower wrote his Confessio...

Geoffrey Chaucer, and mentioned by the poets Boccaccio, Petrarch, and John Gower. Among the thousand-odd surviving manuscript copies is the 13th-century...

evere aliche faste, Wher thou no reson hast to winne. Confessio Amantis, John Gower, III, 1280–1289 A different version of the anecdote, which included new...

Brewer, DS (2012). John Gower, Poetry and Propaganda in Fourteenth-century England (Volume 7 of Publications of the John Gower Society ed.). DS Brewer...

etc., two categories of composers developed. Poets like Chaucer and John Gower appeared in one category, wherein music was not a part. Minstrels, on...

for t'endite Thise woful vers, that wepen as I write! Chaucer's friend John Gower used a similar meter in his poem "In Praise of Peace.": 91  This was written...

following is the beginning of the Prologue from Confessio Amantis by John Gower. Translation in Modern English: (by J. Dow) Of those who wrote before...

the 19th century) are preserved in the cathedral. The 14th-century poet John Gower lived in the priory precinct and is entombed in the church, with a splendid...

racer Janice Gower, English bowls player Jessica Gower (born 1977), Australian actress John Gower (c. 1330–1403), English poet John Gower (politician)...

fourteenth-century English poets John Gower and Geoffrey Chaucer both referred to astrology in their works, including Gower's Confessio Amantis and Chaucer's...

John Ronald Gower (7 April 1912 – 18 November 2007) was a captain in the Royal Navy who fought in the Second World War. He took part in several naval...

source, directly or indirectly, of later literature, in Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, Giovanni Boccaccio, Thomas Hoccleve, William Shakespeare, and others...