Navoiy state pedagogical institute The faculty of English language and literature

Researcher: Mamarayimova Dinora

Group:202

Theme:John Gower’s religious, political, historical and moral works.

Introduction
Mirziyoyev last May created the Agency for Promoting Foreign Language Learning, which is under the Cabinet of Ministers and is tasked with implementing teaching methods and developing effective programmes and textbooks at all stages of education. As part of the effort, the government has selected 10 languages expected to raise the competitiveness of Uzbek citizens and of the country more generally.
English is at the top of the list, followed by Russian, German, French, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Turkish, Arabic and Farsi. Uzbek is the official language of Uzbekistan, while Russian is the second most widely spoken language, especially in the capital and large cities. English, however, is growing in popularity among Uzbek youth.

Few details are known of Gower's early life. He was probably born into a family which held properties in Kent and Suffolk. [2]: 299 Stanley and Smith use a linguistic argument to conclude that "Gower’s formative years were spent partly in Kent and partly in Suffolk".[3] Southern and Nicolas conclude that the Gower family of Kent and Suffolk cannot be related to the Yorkshire Gowers because their coats of arms are drastically different.[4]: 111 Macaulay [5]: xxx–xxxiii and other critics have observed that he must have spent considerable time reading the Bible, Ovid, Secretum Secretorum, Petrus Riga, Speculum Speculationum, Valerius Maximus, John of Salisbury, and others.

He once met Richard II. In the prologue of the first recension of the Confessio Amantis, he tells how the king, chancing to meet him on the Thames (probably circa 1385), invited him aboard the royal barge, and that their conversation then resulted in a commission for the work that would become the Confessio Amantis. [7] Later in life his allegiance switched to the future Henry IV, to whom later editions of the Confessio Amantis were dedicated.[8] Much of this is based on circumstantial rather than documentary evidence, and the history of revisions of the Confessio Amantis, including the different dedications, is yet to be fully understood. The source of Gower's income remains a mystery. [9]: 198 He may have practised law in or around London.[10][11] George Campbell Macaulay lists several real estate transactions to which Gower was a party. [5]: xi Macaulay's Introduction to the French Works suggests that Gower may have been a dealer in wool.[12]: xiii This is based on remarks from Mirour d l'Omme line 25360ff. From 1365 he received ten pounds' rent for the manor of Wygebergh in Essex.[13]: xi From 1382 until death he received forty pounds per annum from selling Feltwell in Norfolk and Moulton in Suffolk.[4]: 117 In 1399 Henry IV granted him a pension, in the form of an annual allowance of two pipes (= 1 tun = 240 gallons) of Gascony wine. Carlson estimates the value of the two pipes as 3 to 4 pounds wholesale or 8 pounds retail.

Gower's friendship with Chaucer is also well documented. When Chaucer was sent as a diplomat to Italy in 1378, Gower was one of the men to whom he gave power of attorney over his affairs in England.[5]: xv The two poets also paid one another compliments in their verse: Chaucer dedicated his Troilus and Criseyde in part to "moral Gower", and Gower reciprocated by placing a speech in praise of Chaucer in the mouth of Venus at the end of the Confessio Amantis (first The tomb of John Gower in Southwark Cathedral recension VIII.2950-70).