A new volume of the works of the Gawain poet, destined to become the definitive edition for students and scholars. This volume brings together four works of the unknown fourteenth-century poet famous for the Arthurian romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in their original Middle English. In one of

Books about The Works of the Gawain-poet

Seeing the Gawain-Poet offers the first full-length study of the descriptive art found in four medieval poems - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Purity, and Patience. Generally accepted as being the work of a single author, alternately known as the Pearl- or the Gawain-poet, these fourteenth-century poems are

The late 14th century produced a crop of brilliant writers: Chaucer, Langland and Gower. Their achievement was rivalled only by a series of four works generally agreed to have been written by a single northern author, known as the Gawain-Poet. This book introduces the reader to the Gawain-poet's four surviving

"An impressive and challenging survey of the five poems attributed to the poet known as the "Gawain"-poet. Bowers presents the principal critical issues in "Gawain, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience," and "St. Erkenwald," with special attention to the poems' relation to contemporary political and social events."--J. Stephen Russell, Hofstra University In "An