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The Minor Latin Works - with In Praise of Peace (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Minor Latin Works - with In Praise of Peace (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: TEAMS Middle English Texts Series
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Discovery Miles 3 820
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Gower's achievement in writing substantially in all three primary
languages of his time-Anglo-French, English, and Latin-was a source
of pride to others and, undoubtedly, to him too: into the final
years of his life he continued to produce poetry in all three
languages. Certainly there is reason to know these poems for the
light they shed on the intense partisanship and events of great
moment surrounding the usurpation 1399-1400. It was during these
parlous times that Gower composed most of the poems included here.
All are important documents historically; but they are also poems
admirable equally for their skill and craft. In Praise of Peace is
in the same position as the shorter Latin works edited and
translated in this volume: ignored, neglected, reduced, or
relegated to the dusty realm of footnotes. But there is far more at
work in this complex poem, as Gower's verse deftly weaves in and
out of the historical, political, social, and religious contexts
and controversies of its day. In tone, In Praise of Peace is, if
not triumphant, determinedly optimistic. In this light, we might
view the poem as a coda to Gower's long career, restating and
reinvigorating his famously moral principles about just rule of
self and society.
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