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

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‘Sir cortays knight, If thou crave batayl bare, Here fayles thou not to fyght.’

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 the great tales of medieval literature, Gawain, the noblest knight of King Arthur’s court, must keep a deadly bargain with a monstrous knight and resist the advances of his host’s beautiful wife. The dream vision of Pearl depicts a bereaved father whose lost child leads him to glimpse heaven. And in moral poems based on stories from the Bible, Cleanness warns against sins of the flesh and of desecration, while Patience encourages readers to endure suffering as God’s will.

Edited by Ad Putter and Myra Stokes

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
26 June 2014
Pages
1040
ISBN
9780140424140

‘Sir cortays knight, If thou crave batayl bare, Here fayles thou not to fyght.’

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 the great tales of medieval literature, Gawain, the noblest knight of King Arthur’s court, must keep a deadly bargain with a monstrous knight and resist the advances of his host’s beautiful wife. The dream vision of Pearl depicts a bereaved father whose lost child leads him to glimpse heaven. And in moral poems based on stories from the Bible, Cleanness warns against sins of the flesh and of desecration, while Patience encourages readers to endure suffering as God’s will.

Edited by Ad Putter and Myra Stokes

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
26 June 2014
Pages
1040
ISBN
9780140424140