John Gower was an early English poet. He was born about 1320 and died in 1408. A contemporary and friend of Chaucer, he was liberally educated, and was a member of the society of the Inner Temple. He appears to have been in affluent circumstances, as he contributed largely to the building of the conventual church of St. Mary Overy, in Southwark. His chief works are his Speculum Meditantis, Vox Clamantis, and Confessio Amantis; of which the first was a moral tract relative to the conjugal duties, written in French rhymes (lost until 1895); the second a metrical chronicle of the insurrection of the commons under Richard II, in Latin elegiac verse; and the third an English poem in eight books, containing 30,000 lines, relative to the morals and metaphysics of love, one of the earliest products of the English press, being printed by William Caxton in 1483. Research John Gower
HMS Vox was a British V Class submarine of 545 tons displacement launched in 1943. HMS Vox was powered by two Davey Paxman diesel engines providing a top speed of 13 knots surfaced and two electric motors providing a top speed of 10 knots submerged. She was armed with one 3 inch gun; two 20 mm anti-aircraft guns and four 21 inch bow torpedo tubes. Research Vox
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