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Confessio amantis. Edited by Russell A. Peck.

Title
Confessio amantis. Edited by Russell A. Peck.
Author
Gower, John, 1325?-1408
Publication
New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1968]

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Additional Authors
Peck, Russell A.
Description
xliv,525p.; 21cm.
Series Statement
Rinehart editions
Subject
  • Christian poetry, English (Middle)
  • Love poetry, English (Middle)
  • Christian ethics > Poetry
  • Courtly love > Poetry
Genre/Form
  • Poetry
  • English poetry
Note
  • Selections based on G. C. Macaulay's standard edition of the works of John Gower, first published in 1900.
  • "Chronology of Gower's life and works": p. xxx-xxxiii.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Prologus: The state. The church. The commons. Nebuchadnezzar's dream. -- Liber primus (pride): Tale of Acteon. Tale of Medusa. Tale of Mundus and Paulina. Tale of Florent. Trump of death. Tale of Narcissus. Tale of Albinus and Rosemund. Nebuchadnessar's punishment. Tale of three questions. -- Liber Secundus (envy): The travelers and the angel. Tale of Constance. Tale of Deianira and Nessus. Tale of Constantine and Slvester. -- Liber tercius (wrath): Tale of Canace and Machaire. Tiresias and the snakes. The patiene of Socrates. Tale of Phebus and Cornide. Tale of Diogenes. Tale of Pyramus and Thisbe. Tale of Orestes. -- Liber Quartus (sloth): Tale of Aeneas and Dido. Tale of Pygmalion, Tale of Demephon and Phyllis. Tale of Rosiphelee. Tale of Ceïx and Alceone. Tale of Iphis and Araxarathen. -- Liber quintus (Avarice): Tale of Vulcan and Venus. Tale of the king and his steward's wife. Tale of Achilles and Deidamia. Tale of Jason and medea. Tale of Adrian and Bardus. Tale of Theseus and Ariadne. Tale of Tereüs. Tale of Hercules and Faunus. -- Leber sextus (Gluttony) Tale of Ulysses and Telegonus. Tale of Nectanabus. -- Liber septimus (education of Alexander) Tale of Tarquin, Aruns, and Lucrece. Tale of Virginia. Tale of Tobias and Sara. -- Liber ocatavus (Incest and conclusion) Apollonius of Tyre.
LCCN
^^^67027942^
OCLC
  • 645881
  • SCSB-12633718
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library