SOURCE: Echard, Siân. “Gower's “bokes of Latin”: Language, Politics, and Poetry.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 25 (2003): 123-56.
In the following excerpt, Echard maintains that Gower's use of Latin in his Vox Clamantis and other works represents an integral part of the poet's expression of complex political ideas in a verse medium.
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