David R. Carlson

John Gower, Poetry and Propaganda in Fourteenth-Century England (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

John Gower's works examined as part of a tradition of "official" writings on behalf of the Crown.

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 also argues that Gower's late poetry is the apotheosis of the fourteenth-century tradition of state-official writing which lay at the origin of the literary Renaissance in Ricardian and Lancastrian England.

David Carlsonis Professor in the Department of English, University of Ottawa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846159725
• Artikelnr.: 56998539

Autorenporträt

David R. Carlson

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Gower in History Official Verse: The Sources and Problems of
Evidence The State Propaganda Occasions of State and Propagandistic Verse
in Mid-Century Walter Peterborough's Victoria belli in Hispania [1367] and
its Official Source Compulsion in Richard Maidstone's Concordia [1392]
Official Writing at the Lancastrian Advent English Poetry in Late Summer
1399 The Cronica tripertita and its Official Source Gower after the
Revolution: Client and Critic Bibliography