Vox Clamantis

Vox Clamantis (“the voice of one crying out”) is a Latin poem of 10,265 lines in elegiac couplets by John Gower (1330 – October 1408) . The first of the seven books is a dream vision giving a vivid account of the Peasants’ Rebellion of 1381. Macaulay described the remaining books: “The general plan of the author is to describe the condition of society and of the various degrees of men, much as in the latter portion of the Speculum Meditantis.”: xxx  Fisher concludes that books II-V were written in the 1370s while the author was writing similar passages in Mirour de l’Omme.: 104

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