biography
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| lived:
| (c.1325–1408)
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| biography:
| Mediaeval poet, born in Kent, SE England, UK, a friend of Chaucer. His works include many French ballads, written in his youth, and Vox clamantis, in Latin elegiacs (1382–4), describing the rising under Wat Tyler. His best-known work is the long English poem, Confessio amantis (c.1383), comprising over 100 stories from various sources on the theme of Christian and courtly love. He became blind in his last years. |
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