John Gower's Confessio Amantis

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/John_Gower's_Confessio_Amantis
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:poetry
gptkbp:alternativeName gptkb:The_Lover's_Confession
gptkbp:author gptkb:John_Gower
gptkbp:contains moral tales
exempla
stories from classical sources
stories from the Bible
gptkbp:contemporaryOf gptkb:Geoffrey_Chaucer
gptkbp:dedicatedTo gptkb:Richard_II
gptkbp:firstPublished 1554
gptkbp:form octosyllabic couplets
gptkbp:genre allegory
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label John Gower's Confessio Amantis
gptkbp:influenced English literature
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Jean_de_Meun's_Roman_de_la_Rose
gptkb:Ovid's_Metamorphoses
gptkbp:language gptkb:Middle_English
gptkbp:mainCharacter gptkb:Amans
gptkb:Genius
gptkbp:manuscriptsSurvive over 50
gptkbp:notableFor moral instruction
dedication to Richard II and later Henry IV
encyclopedic range of stories
use of Latin marginalia
gptkbp:numberOfBooks 8
gptkbp:publicationDate 1390
gptkbp:setting gptkb:England
gptkbp:significance major Middle English poem
gptkbp:structure frame narrative
gptkbp:subject love
morality
gptkbp:theme gptkb:confession
gptkb:classical_mythology
ethics
courtly love
Christian morality
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Pericles,_Prince_of_Tyre
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6