id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-997 Vox Clamantis - Wikipedia .html text/html 4402 442 76 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) . Fisher summarizes: "What distinguishes Gower's views from those of many of his contemporaries, and places him among the progressive thinkers of this day, is his emphasis upon legal justice and regal responsibility for all the estates, defined in terms of "le biencoomue," "bonus communi," or "the common good," depending on the language in which be happened to be writing" [2]:178 Wickert asks the rhetorical question: "Did Gower achieve his goal?" Mirour included a call for soul-searching. His translator observed: "The first four chapters of Book VI should effectively dispose of the conjecture that Gower was a lawyer. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-997.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-997.txt