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Confessio Amantis; Or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins

John, 1325?-1408 Gower · G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay

FormatEbook
Published2008
Words2,11,169
LanguageEnglish
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Confessio Amantis is John Gower's Middle English poem in which a lover confesses to a priest of Venus, who illustrates the seven deadly sins through a series of moral tales. It suits students and readers of medieval English literature.

John, 1325?-1408 Gower

John Gower (c. 1325–1408) was an English poet of the medieval period and a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer. He is best known for writing in three languages—English, French, and Latin—and for his major work *Confessio Amantis*.

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