John Gower in England and Iberia: Manuscripts, Influences, Reception

Essays shedding fresh and significant light on Gower's poetry, major and minor, as it was received, read, and re—produced in England and in Iberia from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries.

John Gower's great poem, the Confessio Amantis, was the first work of English literature translated into any European language. Occasioned by the existence in Spain of fifteenth—century Portuguese and Spanish manuscripts ofthe Confessio, the nineteen essays brought together here represent new and ori...