New Podcast with Brian Gastle and Catherine Carter

New Books Network Interview with Brian Gastle and Catherine Carter

In this episode on the New Books Network, we talk to Brian Gastle and Catherine Carter about their new edition, The Lover's Confession: A Translation of John Gower's Confessio Amantis. In the podcast, Brian and Catherine discuss the division of transcribing, translation, and editing labor; the difficulties of the poetics of Gower's verse; and Gower and Geoffrey Chaucer's relationship.

The Lover's Confession: A Translation of John Gower's Confessio Amantis

Edited and translated by Brian Gastle and Catherine Carter, with Latin translations by Andrew Galloway

John Gower’s "Confessio Amantis" ("The Lover’s Confession") is one of the most important English works of the fourteenth century. Within its frame of the lovesick lover’s confession are well over a hundred stories, mainly derived from classical mythology, the Bible, and history which exemplify the Middle Ages. Echoing the octosyllabic line of the original, this is the first translation of the entire (33,000-line) poem, including its Latin verses and glosses.

ISBN 978-1-58044-678-5 (paperback), 978-1-58044-679-2 (hardback), 978-1-58044-680-8 (PDF) © 2023