A lover, Amans, confesses to Genius, priest of Venus, who examines him sin by sin and illustrates each fault with stories drawn from Ovid, the Bible, chronicles and romance. Gower’s long poem, in Middle English couplets with Latin verses between sections, follows G. C. Macaulay’s edition through its prologue and eight books.
Chaucer’s friend and contemporary at his most ambitious, a great storehouse of medieval tales in the original language. Download the free EPUB.