John Gower, Poetry and Propaganda in Fourteenth-Century England

Name: John Gower, Poetry and Propaganda in Fourteenth-Century England
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By Carlson, David R.

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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

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Number of Pages:: 254
Release Date:: 2012-07-19
Publication Date:: 2012-07-19
Publisher:: D.S.Brewer
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1843843153
ISBN13:: 9781843843153
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 549 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 18 cm

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