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Full text Confessio Amantis at Wikisource Confessio Amantis ("The Lover's Confession") is a 33,000-line Middle English poem by John Gower , which uses the confession made by an ageing lover to the chaplain of Venus as a frame story for a collection of shorter narrative poems.
Adelaide Anne Procter (30 October 1825 – 2 February 1864) was an English poet and philanthropist.. Her literary career began when she was a teenager, her poems appearing in Charles Dickens's periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round, and later in feminist journals.
In the final part of this quatrain the poet starts his confession of love to his beloved. The last line is a very powerful way to end the quatrain and start the next section. "Worse essays" is used in this line to describe the failed "experiments" of the poet. The failed experiments proved that his beloved is the best love that he has encountered.
A declaration of love, also known as a confession of love, is a form of expressing one's love for someone or something. It can be presented in various forms, such as love letters, speeches, or love songs. A love declaration is more often than not explicit and straightforward. A declaration of love from one person to another is "a statement made ...
Edna Dean Proctor was born September 18, 1829, [4] [a] in Henniker, New Hampshire, her father's family having gone there from Essex County, Massachusetts. [3] Of English ancestry, her father, John Proctor, was a native of Manchester, Massachusetts, and a descendant of John Proctor of England, who came to Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1635, and whose eldest son, John Proctor, of Salem Village, was ...
In 2005, her album, “The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection,” was nominated for the Grammy Best Spoken Word Album. She was also named one of Oprah Winfrey’s 25 “Living Legends.” In the ...
John is wary, thinking his verbal confession is sufficient. As they press him further John eventually signs, but refuses to hand the paper over, stating he does not want his family and especially his three sons to be stigmatized by the public confession. The men argue until Proctor renounces his confession entirely, ripping up the signed document.
In 1959 M. L. Rosenthal first used the term "confessional" in a review of Robert Lowell's Life Studies entitled "Poetry as Confession". [6] Rosenthal differentiated the confessional approach from other modes of lyric poetry by way of its use of confidences that (Rosenthal said) went "beyond customary bounds of reticence or personal embarrassment". [7]