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 Poetics of the Past, Politics of the Present: Chaucer, Gower, and Old Books
authority by presenting Gower’s account of the Rising of 1381 and his social criticism in Books I-VII as a textual manifestation of the voice of God, filtered through the fallible human agency of Gower as poet. Therefore, the narrator does not actually...
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authority by presenting Gower’s account of the Rising of 1381 and his social criticism in Books I-VII as a textual manifestation of the voice of God, filtered through the fallible human agency of Gower as poet. Therefore, the narrator does not actually relate what the common mob has told him, but gets his primary inspiration from God, a fact that is already alluded to in the prologue to Book II, the original opening of the poem: Inceptum per te perfecto fine fruator Hoc opus ad laudem nominis, oro, tui. (II
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authority by presenting Gower’s account <span class="highlight">of</span> the Rising <span class="highlight">of</span> 1381 and his social criticism <span class="highlight">in</span> Books I-VII as a textual manifestation <span class="highlight">of</span> the voice <span class="highlight">of</span> God, filtered through the fallible human agency <span class="highlight">of</span> Gower as poet. Therefore, the narrator does not actually relate what the common mob has told him, but gets his primary inspiration from God, a fact that is already alluded to <span class="highlight">in</span> the prologue to Book II, the original opening <span class="highlight">of</span> the poem: Inceptum per te perfecto fine fruator <span class="highlight">Hoc</span> opus <span class="highlight">ad</span> laudem nominis, oro, tui. (II
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