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 the chaplain of Venus as a frame story for a collection of shorter narrative poems. According to its...
The Latin Verses in the |Confessio Amantis', an annotated translation by Sian Echard and Claire Fanger, with a preface by A. G. Rigg, Medieval Texts and Studies, 7 (East Lansing, Michigan: Colleagues Press; Woodbridge: Boyden & Brewer, 1991). lviii + 95 pp. ISBN 0-937191-19-1....
Peter Nicholson, Love and Ethics in Gower's 'Confessio Amantis' (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005), viii + 441 pp. ISBN 0-472-11512-X. 46.00 [pounds sterling]/$80.00. Peter Nicholson's Love and Ethics in Gower's 'Confessio Amantis', weighing in at close to 450 pages, mightily qualifies...
In the following essay, Runacres investigates the “fruitful balance between pleasurable instruction and instructive pleasure” in the Confessio Amantis.
In the following essay, Olsson explores the dynamics of power and love traced in the intimate personal relationships Gower treats in the Confessio Amantis and Mirour de l'Omme.
