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Though never quite matching the popularity and scholarly acclaim of his friend and contemporary Geoffrey Chaucer, the English poet John Gower produced an impressive body of poetry in Anglo-Norman French, Latin, and Middle English and has earned his reputation as one of the great English poets of the fourteenth century. His Confessio Amantis, or "The Lover's Confession," ranks among the Middle English texts most frequently copied before the advent of the printing press. The poem both follows and builds upon the model of fourteenth-century Christian confessions by shaping the lover's account into a frame narrative for a collection of shorter poetic tales, pairing courtly-love reinterpretations of the seven deadly sins with moralizing narratives drawn from biblical, classical, and medieval sources. Volume 2 of this three-volume edition presents Books 2, 3 and 4 of Gower's poem, including translations of Latin components, alongside a comprehensive bibliography, glosses, and explanatory notes.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Confessio Amantis
Book 2: Envy
i. On Envy
Sorrow for Another's Joy
Tale of Acis and Galatea
ii. Joy Over Another's Grief
Tale of the Travelers and the Angel
iii. Detraction
Tale of Constance
Tale of Demetrius and Perseus
iv. False-Semblant
Tale of Deianira, Hercules, and Nessus
v. Supplantation
Tale of Geta and Amphitrion
Tale of the False Bachelor
Tale of Pope Boniface
vi. The Pallor of Envy
Charity and Pity as Remedy
Tale of Constantine and Sylvester
Book 3: Wrath
i. On Melancholy
Tale of Canace and Machaire
Tale of Tiresias and the Snakes
ii. Contention
Patience of Socrates
Of Jupiter, Juno, and Tiresias
Tale of Phebus and Cornide
Jupiter and Laar
iii. Hate
Tale of King Namplus and the Greeks
iv. Contek and Homicide
Tale of Diogenes and Alexander
Tale of Pyramus and Thisbe
On Daunger
Tale of Phebus and Daphne
Tale of Athemas and Demephon
Tale of Orestes
v. Evil of War
Tale of Alexander and the Pirate
On Crusades
Tale of Telaphus and Teucer
Book 4: Sloth
i. On Lachesce, or Procrastination
Tale of Aeneas and Dido
Tale of Ulysses and Penelope
The Great Clerk Grosseteste
The Foolish Virgins
ii. Pusillamité, or Cowardice
Pygmalion and His Statue
Tale of Iphis and Iante
iii. Forgetfulness
Tale of Demophon and Phyllis
iv. Negligence
Tale of Phaeton
Tale of Icarus
v. Idleness
Tale of Rosiphelee
Tale of Jephthah's Daughter
vi. Decerte, or Meritoriousness
Tale of Nauplus and Ulysses
Examples of Prowess: Protesilaus
Saul
Education of Achilles
Tale of Hercules and Achelons
Penthesilea, Philemenis, Aeneas
Gentilesse
vii. On the Uses of Labor
Discoverers and Inventors
Alchemy
Three Philosopher Stones
First Alchemists
Letters and Language
viii. Somnolence
On Dreams
Tale of Ceix and Alceone
Prayer of Cephalus
Tale of Argus and Mercury
ix. Tristesse and Despondency
Tale of Iphis and Araxarathen
Explanatory Notes
Textual Notes
Bibliography
Illustration
Figure 1, MS Bodley 902, Fol. 8r.
