SUSANNAH MARY CHEWNING is Senior Professor of English, Union County College. A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury. The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman. SUSANNAH MARY CHEWNING is Senior Professor of English, Union County College.

The book provides a varied and interesting take on Gower, with several outstanding contributions, and it pays a fitting tribute to the honorand.

• Introduction - Susannah ChewningEdward Thomas on Gower - A S G EdwardsThe Sutherland Fragment of Gower's Confessio Amantis - Derek PearsallIncarnational Making in Vox Clamantis II - Stephanie L. Batkie and Matthew W. IrvinPatriarchy, Family and Law in Gower's Confessio Amantis - Russell PeckGower's Ballades for Women - Peter NicholsonJohn Gower and the Artists of M. 126 - Martha W. DriverGower in Striped Sleeves: Mirour de l'Omme as Gower's Early Humanism - Andrew GallowayWhat's in a Name? History, Genre, and Political Speech in Gower's Chronica Tripertita - David A. RobertsStudies in Gower's Age: Ciceronian Echoes in Confessio Amantis - William RogersGower's Light: the Ecology of "De Lucis scrutino" - Natalie GrinnellGower, Chaucer, and the "Treuthe of Prestehode" - Michael Kuczynski"To Hear an Old Man Sing": Apollonius, Pericles, and the Age of Gower - Roger A. LaddThe Constraints of Justice in Gower's "Lawyerly Habit of Mind" - Brian GastleA Poet at Work: John Gower's Revisions to the Tale of Rosiphilee - Richard Firth GreenA Personal Tribute to Robert F. Yeager - Susannah ChewningBibliography of R. F. Yeager's WritingsGeneral Bibliography