John Gower, Poetry and Propaganda in Fourteenth-Century England

by David R. Carlson

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843843153
• ISBN13: 9781843843153
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.4"