Audio Recordings of John Gower's Works

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Selections from the Confessio Amantis

Read by Brian Gastle. Recorded by Bruce Frazier at Western Carolina University’s Center for Applied Technology. Text: Peck, Russell A. Confessio Amantis. Medieval Academy of America. Toronto: U Toronto P, 1997 (1980).

Opening of the Prologue to the Confessio Amantis (ll 1-92)

by Brian Gastle | 4:02 min

"On the Church" from the Prologue (ll 193-498)

by Brian Gastle | 12:41 min

Book One: The Lover's Complaint (ll 1-332)

by Brian Gastle | 15:50 min

Book One: Tale of FLorent (ll 1407-1875)

by Brian Gastle | 23:13 min

"On the State" from the Prologue (ll 93-192)

by Brian Gastle | 4:19 min

"On the Commons" from the Prologue (ll 499-584)

by Brian Gastle | 4:02 min

Book One: Tale of Acteon

by Brian Gastle | 2:47 min

External

TEAMS Middle English Texts audio of Gower’s Works

  • Confessio Amantis, Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream (Pr.585-662), read by Russell Peck, Derek Pearsall, and Andrew Galloway.
  • Confessio Amantis, Complaint to Cupid and Venus (1.110–262), read by Winthrop Wetherbee, Helen Cooper and Sarah Higley. 
  • Confessio Amantis, Aspidis the Serpent (1.463-80), read by Winthrop Wetherbee. 
  • Confessio Amantis, Tale of Canace and Machaire (3.143-336), read by Winthrop Wetherbee and Gyöngyi Werthmüller. 
  • Confessio Amantis, The Patience of Socrates (3.639-713), read by Winthrop Wetherbee and Gyöngyi Werthmüller. 
  • Confessio Amantis, The Tale of Pyramus and Thisbe (3.1331–494), read by Matthew Irvin, Andrew Galloway and Helen Cooper. 
  • Confessio Amantis, Tale of Ulysses and Penelope (4.147-233), read by Winthrop Wetherbee and Gyöngyi Werthmüller. 
  • Confessio Amantis, Besischipe (4.1118-1235), read by Winthrop Wetherbee and Gyöngyi Werthmüller. 
  • Confessio Amantis, Tale of Rosiphelee (4.1245-1446), read by Winthrop Wetherbee and Gyöngyi Werthmüller. 
  • Confessio Amantis, Alchemy (4.2435-2525), read by Winthrop Wetherbee and Gyöngyi Werthmüller. 
  • Confessio Amantis, On Avarice (5.60-116), read by Gyöngyi Werthmüller. 
  • Confessio Amantis, Genius on Venus (5.1367-1443), read by Gyöngyi Werthmüller and Winthrop Wetherbee. 
  • Confessio Amantis, Tale of Echo (5.4573-652), read by Russell Peck and Helen Cooper. 
  • Confessio Amantis, Rhetoric, the Second Part of Philosophy (7.1507-1587), read by Winthrop Wetherbee and Gyöngyi Werthmüller. 
  • Confessio Amantis, Venus’s Reply, Return of Cupid and Leave-taking of Venus (8.2130–2967), read by Andrew Galloway, Helen Cooper, Winthrop Wetherbee and Gyöngyi Werthmüller. 
  • Cinkante Balades, Balade XLV (1–25), read by Michael Ingham. 
  • Minor Latin Works, Unanimes Esse Qui Secula, read by Nicholas Gresens.