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In this 1995 study James Simpson examines two great poems of the later medieval period, the Latin philosophical epic, Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus (1181-3), and John Gower's English poem, The Confessio Amantis (1390-3). Simpson locates these works in a cultural context dominated by two kinds of literary humanism: the absolutist, whose philosophical mentor is Plato, whose literary model is Virgil and whose concept of the self is centred in the intellect, and the constitutionalist, whose classical models are Aristotle and Ovid and whose concept of the self resides in the mediatory power of the imagination. Both poems are examples of the Bildungsroman, in which the self reaches its fullness only by traversing an educational cursus in the related sciences of ethics, politics and cosmology, but as this study shows, there are very different modes of thought behind their conceptions of selfhood and education.

Comparative literature --- Gower, John --- Alan of Lille --- Amour dans la littérature --- Filosofie [Middeleeuwse ] in de literatuur --- Humanisten --- Humanistes --- Humanists --- Ik in de literatuur --- Liefde in de literatuur --- Love in literature --- Moi dans la littérature --- Philosophie médiévale dans la littérature --- Philosophy [Medieval ] in literature --- Self in literature --- Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- -Humanists --- Literature and science --- -Literature, Comparative --- -Love in literature --- Philosophy, Medieval, in literature --- Poetry, Medieval --- -Poetry, Medieval --- -Self in literature --- European poetry --- Medieval poetry --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- Scholars --- History and criticism --- History --- English (Middle) and Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Latin (Medieval and modern) and English (Middle) --- Classical influences --- Alanus de Insulis --- Humanists. --- Love in literature. --- Philosophy, Medieval, in literature. --- Self in literature. --- English and Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Latin (Medieval and modern) and English. --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Classical influences. --- Alanus, --- Gower, John, --- Europe --- Intellectual life --- Alain de Lille --- Alano di Lilla --- Alanus ab Insulis --- English and Latin (Medieval and modern). --- English (Middle) and Latin (Medieval and modern). --- Latin (Medieval and modern) and English (Middle). --- Soi dans la littérature --- Zelf in de literatuur --- Latin (Medieval and modern) and English --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Poetry [Medieval ] --- Epic poetry [Latin ] (Medieval and modern) --- Literature [Comparative ] --- Literature, Comparative - Latin (Medieval and modern) and English (Middle) --- Literature, Comparative - English (Middle) and Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) - History and criticism. --- Literature and science - Europe - History. --- Poetry, Medieval - Classical influences. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Literature, Comparative - Latin (Medieval and modern) and English. --- Poetry, Medieval - History and criticism. --- Alanus, - de Insulis, - d. 1202. - Anticlaudianus. --- Gower, John, - 1325?-1408. - Confessio amantis. --- MEDIEVAL POETRY --- ALANUS DE INSULIS, d. 1203 --- EPIC POETRY --- GOWER (JOHN), c. 1330-1408 --- LITERATURE AND SCIENCE --- LATIN --- CONFESSIO AMANTIS