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English Poets → called as ‘Moral Chaucer’ by Chaucer
He wrote 3 Major poems.
1. Mirror de L’ Omme (French)
2. Vox clamantis (Latin)
3. Confessio Amantis (English)
4. Speculum Meditantsis (Latin)
1. Mirror de L’Omme :
Mirror of Mankind
Written in Lambic Octasyllable
theme – Man’s salvation
2. Vox Clamantis :
elegic verse.
It is concerned with Wat Tyler’s rebellion of 1381.
In this poem he voiced his own fear of nightmarish uprising
3. confession Amantis:
written in Octasyllabic metre
Subject is Love but called it more a moral Book
The poet approaches venus, the goddess of Love, who asks him to make his confession to her priest, Genius – (a personage borrowed from Romant de Rose) Before hearing the confession genius tells him stories to illustrate the 7 deadly sins and their subdivisions so that poet can confess accordingly. After the confession, the poet is mocked and dismissed by Venus too old for love and asked to stick to morality.
4. Speculum Meditantsis
a long sermon in verse on the immortality of the age