Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins

The book is Confessio Amantis (The Lover's Confession) English poem. Which uses the confession made by an ageing lover to the chaplain of Venus as a frame story for a collection of shorter narrative poems. It stands with the works of Chaucer Langland and the Pearl poet as one of the great works of late 14th-century English literature. In genre it is usually considered a poem of consolation a medieval form inspired by Boethius Consolation of Philosophy and typified by works such as Pearl. Despite this it is more usually studied alongside other tale collections with similar structures such as the Decameron of Boccaccio and particularly Chaucer's Canterbury Tales with which the Confessio has several stories in common.