John Gower

Confessio amantis

Edited by Russell A. Peck [Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching]

University of Toronto Press 1989

Stron XLIV+525, format 15x23 cm

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'Modern critics have tended to look on Gower as a man of his times, to praise him for his earnest involvement in the affairs of his day, but to deny him longevity of significance. Indeed, no English poet embodies as many qualities which we in retrospect would identify as crucial to medieval sensibility - keen social conscience, love of authority and tradition, philosophical pessimism; a fetish for analogy, encyclopedic lore, symmetry, and order, as well as aphorism, proverb, and sententiae; delight in stories almost for their own sake and pleasure in variety of narrative forms (allegory, fable, folklore, and biblical, classical, and historical modes); pleasure in wit, ludicrous incongruities, and the bizarre and grotesque. But these characteristics in no way deny him a voice in our own time. His words of wisdom and pleasure may offer a restorative for the twentieth century as well as for Chaucer's renaissance and Shakespeare's renaissance.' - from the Preface

RUSSELL A. PECK is a member of the Department of English at the University of Rochester; he is editor of two volumes in The Chaucer Bibliographies series: Chaucer's Lyrics and 'Anelida and Arcite' and Chaucer's 'Romaunt of the Rose' and 'Boece,' 'The Treatise on the Astrolabe' and the 'Equatorie of the Planetis,' Lost Works and the Chaucerian Apocrypha.

CONTENTS
v    PREFACE
xi    INTRODUCTION
xxx    CHRONOLOGY OF GOWER'S LIFE AND WORKS
xxxiv    THE LANGUAGE OF GOWER
xliv    SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CRITICISM
I PROLOGUS
4    THE STATE
6    THE CHURCH
15    THE COMMONS
18    NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S DREAM
33 LIBER PRIMUS (PRIDE)
43    TALE OF ACTEON
44    TALE OF MEDUSA
49    TALE OF MUNDUS AND PAULINA
58    TALE OF FLORENT
72    TRUMP OF DEATH
79    TALE OF NARCISSUS
82    TALE OF ALBINUS AND ROSEMUND
88    NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S PUNISHMENT
91    TALE OF THREE QUESTIONS
103 LIBER SECUNDUS (ENVY)
105    THE TRAVELERS AND THE ANGEL
108    TALE OF CONSTANCE
139    TALE OF DEIANIRA AND NESSUS
147    TALE OF CONSTANTINE AND SYLVESTER
158    LIBER TERCIUS (WRATH)
159    TALE OF CANACE AND MACHAIRE 165   TIRESIAS AND THE SNAKES
l68   THE PATIENCE OF SOCRATES
170    TALE OF PHEBUS AND CORNIDE
172    TALE OF DIOGENES
176    TALE OF PYRAMUS AND THISBE
182    TALE OF ORESTES
195 LIBER QUARTUS (SLOTH)
I95    TALE OF AENEAS AND DIDO
I98    TALE OF PYGMALION
201    TALE OF DEMEPHON AND PHYLLIS
209    TALE OF ROSIPHELEE
225    TALE OF CEIX AND ALCEONE
232    TALE OF IPHIS AND ARAXARATHEN
238 LIBER QUINTUS (AVARICE)
24O    TALE OF VULCAN AND VENUS
25I    TALE OF THE KING AND HIS STEWARD'S WIFE
257    TALE OF ACHILLES AND DEIDAMIA
264    TALE OF JASON AND MEDEA
294    TALE OF ADRIAN AND BARDUS
300    TALE OF THESEUS AND ARIADNE
308    TALE OF TEREUS
325    TALE OF HERCULES AND FAUNUS
333 LIBER SEXTUS (GLUTTONY)
339   TALE OF ULYSSES AND TELEGONUS 350   TALE OF NECTANABUS
368 LIBER SEPTIMUS (EDUCATION OF ALEXANDER)
392    TALE OF TARQUIN, ARUNS, AND LUCRECE
407    TALE OF VIRGINIA
412    TALE OF TOBIAS AND SARA
415    LIBER OCTAVUS (INCEST AND CONCLUSION)
416    APOLLONIUS OF TYRE
494    NOTES
524    SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THE NOTES