John Gower in England and Iberia

Description:

"John Gower's great poem, the Confessio Amantis, was the first work of English literature translated itno any European language. Occasioned by the existence in Spain of fifteenth-century Portuguese and Spanish manuscripts of the Confessio, the nineteen essays brought together here represent new and original approaches to Gower's role in Anglo-Iberian literary relations."

subjects: Congresses,  Influence,  Gower, john, 1325-1408,  English poetry, history and criticism

People: John Gower (1325?-1408)