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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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)...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • John C. Gower (January 10, 1941 – December 10, 2011) was an American Republican politician. Born in Kankakee, Illinois, Gower received his bachelor and...
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    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...
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    Saul, Nigel (2010). "John Gower: Prophet or Turncoat?". In Dutton, Elizabeth; Hines, John; Yeager, R. F. (eds.). John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • and global medieval literature. Sobecki was awarded the John Hurt Fisher Prize by the John Gower Society and has held fellowships from Harvard University...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • racer Janice Gower, English bowls player Jessica Gower (born 1977), Australian actress John Gower (c. 1330–1403), English poet John Gower (politician)...
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    Brewer, DS (2012). John Gower, Poetry and Propaganda in Fourteenth-century England (Volume 7 of Publications of the John Gower Society ed.). DS Brewer...
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    etc., two categories of composers developed. Poets like Chaucer and John Gower appeared in one category, wherein music was not a part. Minstrels, on...
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    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...
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    Geoffrey Chaucer, and mentioned by the poets Boccaccio, Petrarch, and John Gower. Among the thousand-odd surviving manuscript copies is the 13th-century...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • fourteenth-century English poets John Gower and Geoffrey Chaucer both referred to astrology in their works, including Gower's Confessio Amantis and Chaucer's...
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  • source, directly or indirectly, of later literature, in Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, Giovanni Boccaccio, Thomas Hoccleve, William Shakespeare, and others...
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  • 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...
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