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Gower's second major work, the Vox Clamantis, was written in Latin: it takes as its subject the state of England, and incorporates commentary on the Peasants ' Revolt that occurred during the composition of the poem.
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His mother had died a week before he left to captain the England tour to the West Indies which ended in a 5-0 defeat ( Gower's second at their hands ).
The second source is the Lawrence Twine prose version of Gower's tale, The Pattern of Painful Adventures, dating from ca.
Gower's and major
It was with the 14th century that major works of English literature began once again to appear ; these include the so-called Pearl Poet's Pearl, Patience, Cleanness, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ; Langland's political and religious allegory Piers Plowman ; Gower's Confessio Amantis ; and, of course, the works of Chaucer, the most highly regarded English poet of the Middle Ages, who was seen by his contemporaries as a successor to the great tradition of Virgil and Dante.
It was with the fourteenth century that major works of English literature began once again to appear ; these include the so-called Pearl Poet's Pearl, Patience, Cleanness, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ; Langland's political and religious allegory Piers Plowman ; Gower's Confessio Amantis ; and the works of Chaucer, the most highly regarded English poet of the Middle Ages, who was seen by his contemporaries as a successor to the great tradition of Virgil and Dante.
Gower's and work
* Pericles, Prince of Tyre, a play by Shakespeare, based on Gower's work and featuring Gower as the Chorus.
Gower's and Vox
The revolt is discussed in John Gower's Vox Clamantis and Froissart's Chronicles.
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In 1985 David Gower's England team was strengthened by the return of Gooch and Emburey as well as the emergence at international level of Tim Robinson and Mike Gatting.
The earliest known such usage in English was John Gower's in Confessio amantis ( 1390 ):
This was the most prolific first-class season of Gower's career thus far.
A battling 98 * at Sydney was again followed by another duck and 11 as Gower's form deserted him.
Gower's timely revival of form ensured his selection for the 1981 Ashes series, however apart from an 89 at Lord's, Gower failed to convert the success he was having in the domestic game to the Test matches, with many scores in the 20s or lower.
Gooch was enraged, as he was by Gower's mode of dismissal at a crucial stage of one of the Test matches.
He also presented four series of the BBC2 cricket magazine show, Gower's Cricket Monthly from 1995 – 1998 and, at the same time was one of the BBC's main cricket commentators.
In 1833 the estate was inherited by Gower's son, Francis Leveson-Gower who changed his surname to Egerton, and in 1846 became the Earl of Ellesmere.
His last first-class appearance was for H. D. G. Leveson Gower's team against Oxford in 1932.
His last match was for H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians, where his figures were five for 93 ; he took a wicket with his last ball in first-class cricket.
Gower's junior club was the Colyton-Mt Druitt Colts.
Shakespeare's play Pericles, Prince of Tyre was based in part on Gower's version, with the change of name probably inspired by Philip Sidney's Arcadia.
Gower's and Latin
Gower's Latin poetry is well executed by medieval standards, with both vocabulary and prosody handled with competence.
* Gower's Latin works, ed.
Gower's and England
For the Second Test he wrote an inspirational hymn for the England cricketers to sing called " Onward Gower's Soldiers " and appointed a team chaplain, but remained aloof from the players and seldom visited the dressing room.
Gower's and on
For the performances on the nights of the Apollo landing, Hands added a special acknowledgment of the event to Gower's lines.
The tale comes from the Histories of Titus Livius and is retold in The Romance of the Rose, John Gower's Confessio Amantis which Chaucer drew on for inspiration along with the biblical story of Jephtha.
Gower's and during
In addition, he forged two partnerships over three-hundred runs, with 331 scored with Tim Robinson ( 148 ) during Gower's own double-century, and 351 with Gooch's 196 at The Oval.
Gower's and poem
There is a very different interpretation of the encounter with Circe in John Gower's long didactic poem Confessio Amantis ( 1380 ).
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The story has been recounted in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Legend of Good Women, John Gower's Confessio Amantis ( Book VII ), and John Lydgate's Fall of Princes.
Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians.
Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians.
Four of Gower's beaches have Blue Flag beach and Seaside ( 2006 ) awards for their high standards: Bracelet Bay, Caswell Bay, Langland Bay and Port Eynon Bay.
The strained relationship between the pair contributed to Gower's complete retirement in 1993.
Gower's career run total is also the third highest by an English player, again behind only Stewart with 8, 463, and Gooch with 8, 900.
Winning the toss, Lancashire chose to bat first and amassed 259 thanks largely to a century by David Lloyd, who would later become Gower's co-commentator.
After 16 against India in February 1980, and 20 and one against the West Indies, Gower's form picked up marginally with scores of 45, 35 and 48 against Australia and the West Indies.
Matthew Engel of ESPNcricinfo wrote that Gower's commentating career has been " so successful that his cricket seemed mere preparation.
David Gower's career performance graph.
Few details are known of Gower's early life.
Gower's friendship with Chaucer is also well documented.
Gower's verse is by turns religious, political, historical, and moral — though he has been narrowly defined as " moral Gower " ever since Chaucer graced him with the epithet.
One scholar asserts that Confessio Amantis " almost exclusively " made Gower's " poetic reputation.
Gower's poetry has had a mixed critical reception.
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