Confessio Amantis

Confessio Amantis  (14th century)  by John Gower

Confessio Amantis ("The Lover's Confession") is a 33,000-line Middle English poem by John Gower, which uses the confession made by an ageing lover to the chaplain of Venus as a frame story for a collection of shorter narrative poems. According to its prologue, it was composed at the request of Richard II. It stands with the works of Chaucer, Langland, and the Pearl poet as one of the great works of late 14th century English literature.— Excerpted from Confessio Amantis on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Incipit Liber Primus

• Part 1
• Part 2

Incipit Liber Secundus

• Part 1
• Part 2

Incipit Liber Tercius

• Part 1
• Part 2

Incipit Liber Quartus

• Part 1
• Part 2

Incipit Liber Quintus

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4

Incipit Liber Sextus

• Part 1
• Part 2

Incipit Liber Septimus

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

Incipit Liber Octavus

• Part 1
• Part 2

Source

From The Works of John Gower (1330 - 1408 A.D.), ed. Professor G. C. Macauley (Oxford, 1901).

This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.