Confessio 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...

primarily for three major works—the Mirour de l'Omme, Vox Clamantis, and Confessio Amantis—three long poems written in French, Latin, and English respectively...

marginal notations, which are a running analysis of the contents of the Confessio Amantis, a 33,000-line Middle English poem by John Gower. These have been...

Chaucer, written around 1387. John Gower's "Tale of Constance" in Confessio Amantis tells the same story and may have been a source for Chaucer. Nicholas...

Sleep Has His House, which itself is a translation of a line from Confessio Amantis by the Middle English poet John Gower. The final track, "The God of...

scholars. John Gower presents this form of the anecdote in his Confessio Amantis. In the Confessio the meeting is a meeting of opposites. Alexander embodies...

lapwing by Dryden and lappewincke (lappewinge) by John Gower in his Confessio Amantis, or hoopoe in A.S. Kline's translation. The bird's crest indicates...

the English poet John Gower included a summary of the tale in his Confessio Amantis (in English, unlike his other major works), a collection of stories...

lapwing by Dryden and lappewincke (lappewinge) by John Gower in his Confessio Amantis, or hoopoe in A. S. Kline's translation. The bird's crest indicates...

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 Night's Dream. Pausanias...

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

the third folio, and the main inspiration for the play was Gower's Confessio Amantis. Various arguments support the theory that Shakespeare was the sole...

day. The earliest known such usage in English was John Gower's in Confessio amantis (1390): According to Herodotus, Croesus encountered the Greek sage...

fleet are styled emperor". This story also appears in John Gower's Confessio Amantis III.2363–2438 and in a poem by François Villon. The book was republished...

Helenus and other Trojans in revenge for the death of his father In Confessio Amantis Book 4 line 2161ff he is the slayer of the Amazon Penthesilea The...

Chaucer, in his The Legend of Good Women, and John Gower, in his Confessio Amantis, were the first to tell the story in English. Gower altered the story...

the men placing a bet on the virtue of their wives. John Gower's Confessio Amantis (Book VII), and John Lydgate's Fall of Princes recount the myth of...

earlier 14th century poetic references to the fable. In John Gower's Confessio Amantis (c. 1390) it is related: Though it be not the hound's habit To eat...

Dieterich. p. XCVIII. Retrieved 6 October 2024. Gower, John (c. 1390). Confessio Amantis or Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins (in Middle English). book 5 part...

epic poem Troilus and Criseyde. John Gower included the tale in his Confessio Amantis. References to Philomela are common in the motets of the ars nova...

may also refer to: Confessio Amantis ("The Lover's Confession"), a 33,000-line Middle English poem by John Gower Lachrimæ Amantis ("A Lover's tears")...

the heroine offered as a sacrifice being adapted in Book 8 of the Confessio Amantis of John Gower and, by way of that, forming a portion of the plot of...

focus, however, is on English works: the poems of Chaucer, Gower's Confessio Amantis and Usk's Testament of Love, the works of Chaucer's epigones, and...

century. John Gower's "Pygmaleon and his Statue" in Book 4 of the Confessio Amantis (1390) John Marston's "Pigmalion", in "The Argument of the Poem" and...

Chaucer both referred to astrology in their works, including Gower's Confessio Amantis and Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer commented explicitly on...

Lawrence Twine of the tale of Apollonius of Tyre from John Gower's Confessio Amantis (in Middle English verse). It is also said to be translated from a...

Cury (earliest cookbook in the English language) 1390 John Gower – Confessio Amantis 1390s Geoffrey Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales 1395 Lady Julian of...

Langland's political and religious allegory Piers Plowman; John Gower's Confessio Amantis; and the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, the most highly regarded English...

story, which include Apame are found in Josephus and John Gower's Confessio Amantis. Alcuin Blamire describes the "Darius Contest" as important in "the...

ISBN 978-0-674-99605-2. Retrieved 2014-11-25. Gower, John (2008). Confessio Amantis or Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins. Liber primus. Retrieved 2014-11-30...