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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The Original and Translated Version

Gawain Poet

One of Arthur’s greatest champions, The Green Knight is both a judge and tester of knights, looked upon by his peers as an amiable yet terrifying and mysterious personage.

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On Marriage: The Textual Tradition of De Coniuge Non Ducenda

Gawain Poet

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The Gawain Poet

J. A. Burrow

This book treats separately all four poems: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain. There are also chapters on: the history of the poems and their rediscovery; The main emphasis falls…

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An Introduction to the Gawain-Poet

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This book introduces the reader to the Gawain-Poet’s four surviving works: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, Pearl and Cleanness.

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The Art of the Gawain Poet

W.A. Davenport

Starting from the assumption taht ‘Pearl’, ‘Purity’, ‘Patience’ and ‘Sir Gawain and the Green knight’ are by one poet, W.A. Davenport seeks to define the nature of his art. He…

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An Introduction to the Gawain Poet

John M Bowers

In An Introduction to the Gawain Poet, John Bowers surveys an expanded selection of the works of Chaucer’s anonymous contemporary, considering Sir Gawain and the Green Knight alongside the poet’s…

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An Introduction to the Gawain Poet

John M. Bowers

In An Introduction to the Gawain Poet, John Bowers surveys an expanded selection of the works of Chaucer’s anonymous contemporary, considering Sir Gawain and the Green Knight alongside the poet’s…

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This book introduces the reader to the Gawain-Poet’s four surviving works: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, Pearl and Cleanness.

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The Works of the Gawain-Poet

Charles Moorman,Cotton Nero A.x

Designed for the professional scholar, the student, and the general reader with no training in Middle English, this edition brings together the tools for both introductory and advanced study. Charles…

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A Companion to the Gawain-Poet

This collection of introductory essays by scholars and critics provides a one-volume guide to the works of the anonymous Gawain-poet.

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A Companion to the Gawain-Poet

Essays intended as a companion to the reading of the works of the Gawain-Poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl , Cleanness and Patience.

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The Gawain-Poet: A Critical Study

A. C. Spearing

A study of the four great Middle English poems, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Patience and Purity, which are in the same manuscript and are attributed to the…

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The Historical Arthur and The Gawain Poet

Andrew Breeze

The Historical Arthur and The Gawain Poet delves into the real origins of the legendary Arthur and reveals the true author of the famous Gawain Manuscript. Through literary and historical…

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Seeing the Gawain-Poet: Description and the Act of Perception

Sarah Stanbury

Offers the full-length study of the descriptive art found in four medieval poems: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Purity, and Patience.

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The Judaic Other in Dante, the Gawain-poet, and Chaucer

Catherine S. Cox

This book explores the late medieval literary legacy of early Christianity’s relationship to its Judaic origins.

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Traditions and Renewals: Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, & Beyond

Marie Borroff

Marie Borroff is a literary critic, poet and philologist as well as mediaevalist. In this collection of essays she explores problems of central importance in the poetry of Chaucer and…

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The Gawain-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition

Ethan Campbell (Associate Professor of English and Literature, The King's College, New York City)

A fresh contextual reading of the four Middle English Gawain poems that situates them within the rich tradition of fourteenth-century English anticlericalism.

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Life in Words: Essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Malory

Jill Mann

This volume collects fifteen landmark essays published over the last three decades by the distinguished medievalist Jill Mann.

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Life in Words: Essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Malory

Jill Mann

This volume collects fifteen landmark essays published over the last three decades by the distinguished medievalist Jill Mann.

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The Works of the Gawain Poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience

Ad Putter,Myra Stokes

Suitable for students and scholars, this book brings together four works of the unknown fourteenth-century poet famous for the Arthurian romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in their original…

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God and the Gawain-Poet: Theology and Genre in Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Cecilia A. Hatt

A fresh examination of the four poems of the Cotton manuscript, arguing that they share a profound theological vision.

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The Gawain Poet - Complete Works: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, Cleanness, Pearl, Saint Erkenwald

Marie Borroff

Of the five poems contained in this book, two are acknowledged masterpieces. The plot of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an Arthurian romance, brilliantly interweaves elements of suspense and…

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The Numerical Universe of the Gawain-Pearl Poet: Beyond Phi

Edward I. Condren

This volume examines the manuscript of the Gawain-Pearl poet in the light of a compositional method well recognised from the literature of ancient Greece and Rome through the Renaissance, but…

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The Court of Richard II and Bohemian Culture: Literature and Art in the Age of Chaucer and the Gawain Poet

Alfred Thomas (Royalty Account)

First detailed exploration of the role played by Bohemian tradition and customs in the court of Richard II.

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Rethinking the Beatitudes in Late Medieval Literature: A Study of the Gawain-Poet’s Middle English Texts

Caroline Jones

Recognised as the author of the Middle English poems Patience, Cleanness, Pearl, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and as some scholars argue- St Erkenwald, the Gawain-poet is one of…

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Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Greatest Stories: Oxford Level 16: Gawain and the Green Knight Pack 6

Philip Reeve, Pearl Poet

In this magical medieval quest, Sir Gawain sets out on a hopeless quest. Somewhere, the grim and giant Green Knight is waiting for him.TreeTops Greatest Stories is a series of…

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Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Greatest Stories: Oxford Level 16: Gawain and the Green Knight

Philip Reeve,Pearl Poet

In this magical medieval adventure, Sir Gawain sets out on a hopeless quest. Somewhere, the giant Green Knight is waiting for him.TreeTops Greatest Stories is a series of timeless classics…

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