While there he did free-lance translations and edited school texts to support his family.
Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991.
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In August 1894 he moved the family back to England, to live in Oxford, where he did literary research...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Elizabeth Cooper
Her selection runs from Edward the Confessor
to Samuel Daniel
. (The title-page mentions Gower
, Langland, and Chaucer.) For each poet she provides a short biography and a scholarly and critical preface. Her judgements...
Timeline
About June 1390: John Gower finished composing his only English...
Writing climate item
About June 1390
John Gower
finished composing his only English poem, the miscellaneous collection of tales entitled Confessio Amantis; it was printed by William Caxton
in 1483.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
2 September 1483: William Caxton dated his edition of John...
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2 September 1483
William Caxton
dated his edition of John Gower
's only poem in English, Confessio Amantis.
