
Master of verse, satirist - or poet - for you

[O Gower, enclosed by the sea and filled with praiseĮngland, throughout many regions, recites your joyous poetry. Sit laus completa quo gloria stat sine meta. Per loca discreta canit Anglia laude repleta. Quam cinxere freta Gower tua carmina leta An alternative translation could be the more general "wise man," with implications for the identity of "philosophical" Strode on whom see Delasanta, "Chaucer and Strode." Macaulay (4.419) suggests this Philosophus as also the author of a quatrain following CA in many manuscripts including F, prefaced by the heading "Epistola super huius opusculi sui complementum Iohanni Gower a quodam philosopho transmissa" ("A letter about the completion of this, his little work, sent to John Gower by a certain philosopher"):

For a list of manuscript abbreviations, please see Manuscripts in the Introduction.ĮNEIDOS BUCOLIS: NOTES Prose Philosophus.

JOHN GOWER, THE MINOR LATIN WORKS: NOTES ABBREVIATIONS: CA: Gower, Confessio Amantis CB: Gower, Cinkante Ballades Cronica: Gower, Cronica Tripertita CT: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales CVP: Gower, Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia IPP: Gower, In Praise of Peace Mac: Macaulay edition MO: Gower, Mirour de l'Omme TC: Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde Thynne: William Thynne, printer, The Works of Geffray Chaucer (1532) Traitié: Gower, Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz VC: Gower, Vox Clamantis.Īll biblical citations are to the Vulgate text, and, unless otherwise noted, all biblical translations are from the Douai-Rheims.
