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Article: The Latin Verses in the 'Confessio Amantis.'
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- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- March 22, 1993
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The Latin Verses in the |Confessio Amantis', an annotated translation by Sian Echard and Claire Fanger, with a preface by A. G. Rigg, Medieval Texts and Studies, 7 (East Lansing, Michigan: Colleagues Press; Woodbridge: Boyden & Brewer, 1991). lviii + 95 pp. ISBN 0-937191-19-1. 22.00.[pounds]
These two books continue the laudable process of opening up Gower's work to a wider audience. The Latin verses of the Confessio, allusive and difficult as they may often be, might not seem substantial enough to warrant a book to themselves: there is a lot of white space in the text, and much repetition between the Introduction, where the poems and the issues they raise are ...