John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation, and Tradition

by Robert F. Yeager and John Hines

John Gower wrote in three languages - Latin, French, and English - and their considerable and sometimes competing significance in fourteenth-century England underlies his trilingualism. The essays collected in this volume start from Gower as trilingual poet, exploring Gower's negotiations between them - his adaptation of French sources into his Latin poetry, for example - as well as the work of medieval translators who made Gower's French poetry...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843842505
• ISBN13: 9781843842507
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 2.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"