John Gower, Poetry and Propaganda in Fourteenth-Century England

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

List of contents

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

About the author

David R. Carlson

Product details

• Authors: David R Carlson, David R. Carlson
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.07.2012
• EAN: 9781843843153
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-315-3
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 239 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Series: Publications of the John Gower
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies