Authority Cited: Gower
Author name and dates: John Gower (c.1330-1408)
BKG Bio-tweet: English, French, Latin poems; friend of Chaucer; SJ quotes from de confessio Amantis in History, cites in etym. of feague
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: One Gower cite in the 1755 Dict. History of the English Language, one Gower cite in the 1755 Dict. word list vol.1. No Gower cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., lists item 583 2. Gower de confessione amantis, 1554.]
Author name and dates: John Gower (c.1330-1408)
BKG Bio-tweet: English, French, Latin poems; friend of Chaucer; SJ quotes from de confessio Amantis in History, cites in etym. of feague
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: One Gower cite in the 1755 Dict. History of the English Language, one Gower cite in the 1755 Dict. word list vol.1. No Gower cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., lists item 583 2. Gower de confessione amantis, 1554.]
- Io. Gower de confessione de Amantis, 1554, Imprinted at London: In Fletestrete by Thomas Berthelette, the XII. daie of Marche. An. M.D.LIIII. cum privilegio. Watkins in Johnson and English Poetry before 1660 notes that the Gower quotation in the "Introduction" of the Dict. is identical in wording to the 1554 Amantis edition. Per Greene the first edition of Amantis was printed by Caxton, 1483. See Yale Vol. 18, pp. 181-182 for the text of the Gower quotation.
- Gower (no work cited); feague (feige)