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There is a world of difference between Francreole and Creole. They differ not so much by their phraseologies, but much more so in everything else. Francreole is a diaglocy, a romantic literary genre, a mixture of two grammatical and modern languages. Creole is just a grammatically neglected local dialect. They are two sister languages, if not mother-daughter. Francreole is a grammar that, orthographically and analytically, has revised the literary composition of a dialectto wit, Creole, into a better-articulated literary recomposition, rather than just a mere simplistic local French Creole patois, as usual. Creole patois has hereby been innovated from being just a mere dialect into a full-fl edged Romantic literary genre. It is a modern grammar now. Its phraseology remains unchanged. Students, intellectuals, Francreole speakers, Creole speakers, French speakers, or any person interested in foreign languages will find this study challenging, as it is unique as a literary innovation to the vernacular Creole dialect, now a vehicular Romantic language.
That the poet John Gower was a major literary figure in England at the close of the fourteenth century is no longer in question. Scholarly attention paid to him and to his work over the past twenty- five years has redeemed him from an undeserved obscurity imposed by the preceding two hundred. The facts of his life and career are now documented, and recent critical assessment has placed his achievement most accurately alongside Chaucer's, Langland's, and the Gawain- poet's. Unique among his contemporaries, all of whom undoubtedly read and used French in some measure, Gower alone has left us a significant body of verse and prose in Anglo-Norman; chiefly, the twelve-stanza poem Mirour de l-Omme, the Cinkante Balades, and the Traitié pour les amantz marietz. We are offered in this concordance of his Anglo- Norman work a unique opportunity to view a poetic language as it was written and read in England until Gower's death in 1408 and beyond.