Introduction: Making and Doing Love The Inheritance of the Confessio Amantis The Orientation of the Prologue Amorous Persons Pity and the Feminine Labor and Art Alienation and Value The Love of Kings Conclusion: Identifying Amans
Irvin's study is wide-ranging, learned, and productive. By
encompassing Gower's major works while attending to many divergent
aspects of the Confessio, this book has much to offer future
readers and scholars of Gowerian poetics. * JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND
GERMANIC PHILOLOGY *
Gower scholarship has, to some extent, suffered precisely because
of the multilingual nature of Gower's texts, with the bulk of
scholarship focusing upon his Middle English Confessio; Irvin's
study not only benefits from but revels in that complexity. *
MODERN PHILOLOGY *
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