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An illustration from a manuscript of Vox Clamantis, showing Gower shooting the world: "I throw my darts and shoot my arrows at the world. But where there is a righteous man, no arrow strikes"

Vox Clamantis ("the voice of one crying out") is a Latin poem of around 10,000 lines in elegiac verse by John Gower that recounts the events and tragedy of the 1381 Peasants' Rising. The poem takes aim at the corruption of society and laments the rise of evil. Gower takes an entirely aristocratic side in the poem, regarding the peasants' claims as invalid and their actions as following the anti-Christ.

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Gower's Latin works Gower's Latin works books.google.com/books?id=JjIhAAAAMAAJ - Web

Cambridge History of English Literature Cambridge History of English Literature www.bartleby.com/212/0605.html - Web

The Norton Anthology Introduction Online The Norton Anthology Introduction Online www.wwnorton.com/nael/middleages/topic_1/satire.htm - Web

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