A description is presented of the content of a fragment of the manuscript written by the poet John Gower and entitled 'Confession Amantis'. The relationship of the fragment and the 'Stafford' Gower is discussed.
There have been few recent additions to the materials for the study of the text of Gower's Confessio Amantis. (1) Discoveries have been largely confined to the identification of various extracts from this work. (2) Recently, however, a new fragment has come to light, one that is ...