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WINNER: 2013 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award
John Gower's works examined as part of a tradition of "official" writings on behalf of the Crown.
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.
David Carlsonis Professor in the Department of English, University of Ottawa.
Contents
Introduction: Gower in History
Official Verse: The Sources and Problems of Evidence
The State Propaganda
Occasions of State and Propagandistic Verse in Mid-Century
Walter Peterborough's Victoria belli in Hispania [1367] and its Official Source
Compulsion in Richard Maidstone's Concordia [1392]
Official Writing at the Lancastrian Advent
English Poetry in Late Summer 1399
The Cronica tripertita and its Official Source
Gower after the Revolution: Client and Critic
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