(PDF) The Minor Latin Works by John Gower

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The Minor Latin Works
by John Gower, Robert F. Yeager, Michael Livingston

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• Format: paperback, 139 pages
• Release date: January 1, 2006
• Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
• Author: John Gower, Robert F. Yeager, Michael Livingston
• Language: english
• ISBN: 9781580440974 (1580440975)

About The Book

Gower’s achievement in writing substantially in all three primary languages of his time-Anglo-French, English, and Latin-was a source of pride to others and, undoubtedly, to him too: into the final years of his life he continued to produce poetry in all three languages. Certainly there is reason to know these poems for the light they shed on the intense partisanship and events of great moment surrounding the usurpation 1399-1400. It was during these parlous times that Gower composed most of the poems included here. All are important documents historically; but they are also poems admirable equally for their skill and craft. In Praise of Peace is in the same position as the shorter Latin works edited and translated in this volume: ignored, neglected, reduced, or relegated to the dusty realm of footnotes. But there is far more at work in this complex poem, as Gower’s verse deftly weaves in and out of the historical, political, social, and religious contexts and controversies of its day. In tone, In Praise of Peace is, if not triumphant, determinedly optimistic. In this light, we might view the poem as a coda to Gower’s long career, restating and reinvigorating his famously moral principles about just rule of self and society.

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