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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Rose Macaulay
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.
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In August 1894 he moved the family back to England, to live in Oxford, where he did literary research...
Timeline
About June 1390: John Gower finished composing his only English...
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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.
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.