Author(s): John Gower
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 144
Publisher: Eebo Editions, Proquest
Language: English
Date Published: 2011-01-02
Dimensions: 189 x 246 x 8mm
Publication City/Country: Charleston SC, United States
Edition:
Illustrations: black & white illustrations

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"Chaucer's ghoast, or, A piece of antiquity containing twelve pleasant fables of Ovid penn'd after the ancient manner of writing in England, which makes them prove mock-poems to the present poetry"
Metamorphoses.
Confessio amantis.
Lover of antiquity.
Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.
Ovid, 43 B. C.-17 or 18 A. D.
Wing lists as a translation of selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Has been also identified as being derived from John Gower's "Confessio Amantis" -- Cf. Notes and queries, 242, n.s. 44 (Dec. 1997), 458-459.
Attributed to Charles Cotton in the Wrenn Catalogue.
[12], 121, [2] p.
London: Printed by T. Ratcliff & N. Thompson for Richard Mills, 1672.
Wing / O647
English
Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library
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