Confessio Amantis

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Confessio Amantis
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.
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Prologus

Incipit Liber Primus

Incipit Liber Secundus

Incipit Liber Tercius

Incipit Liber Quartus

Incipit Liber Quintus

Incipit Liber Sextus

Incipit Liber Septimus

Incipit Liber Octavus

Source

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

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