An Introduction to the Gawain Poet by John M. Bowers

Arthuriana ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 110-112
Author(s):  
Ad Putter
Keyword(s):  
Gawain Poet

Ethan Campbell, The Gawain-Poet and Fourteenth-Century English Anti-Clerical Tradition. Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications / Western Michigan University, 2018, pp. 238.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 427-429
Author(s):  
Jane Beal
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Dual Language ◽  
Pearl Poet ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Sir Gawain ◽  
Link Type ◽  
Western Michigan University ◽  
Facsimile Edition ◽  
Scientific Rhetoric ◽  
Gawain Poet

In the past four years, there has been a flurry of valuable new work on the poems of the Gawain-poet (also known as the Pearl-poet), which includes new editions, translations, monographs, pedagogical studies, and online resources. Among the editions and translations are Malcolm Andrew and Ronald Waldron’s excellent facsimile edition and translation of Cotton Nero A.x (Folio Society, 2016), Simon Armitage’s verse translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl (W.W. Norton, 2008 and 2016 respectively) and, I allow myself to mention, my own dual-language edition-translation of Pearl with supplementary materials for collegiate teaching (Broadview, forthcoming). Academic monographs include Piotyr Spyra’s Epistemological Perspective of the Pearl-Poet (Ashgate, 2014), Cecelia Hatt’s God and the Gawain-Poet: Theology and Genre (Boydell & Brewer, 2015), my Signifying Power of Pearl: Medieval Literary and Cultural Contexts for the Transformation of Genre (Routledge, 2017), and Lisa Horton’s Scientific Rhetoric of the Pearl-Poet (Arc Humanities Press, forthcoming). Editors Mark Bradshaw Busbee and I have published Approaches to Teaching the Middle English Pearl (MLA, 2017), which contains insightful pedagogical essays from several professors. The journal Glossator provides a complete commentary on each section of Pearl, available online (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://glossator.org/2015/03/30/glossator-9-2015-pearl">https://glossator.org/2015/03/30/glossator-9-2015-pearl</ext-link>/), and additional resources are available at “Medieval Pearl” (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://medievalpearl.wordpress.com">https://medievalpearl.wordpress.com</ext-link>). Now Ethan Campbell’s The Gawain-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition joins the ranks, making a meaningful contribution to our understanding of the poet in his cultural milieu.

THE GAWAIN -POET AND TOULOUSE

1996 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-268
Author(s):  
ANDREW BREEZE
Keyword(s):  
Gawain Poet

The Gawain-poet

1983 ◽  
pp. 155-180
Author(s):  
Derek Brewer
Keyword(s):  
Gawain Poet

V: The Gawain Poet and Dante: A Conjecture

PMLA ◽  
1936 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Gordon Hall Gerould
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Geoffrey Chaucer ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Piers Plowman ◽  
Ample Evidence ◽  
Sir Gawain ◽  
The World ◽  
Native Speech ◽  
Gawain Poet ◽  
Made In

The end of the fourteenth century, when Geoffrey Chaucer wrote, was one of the periods of great accomplishment in English literature. Chaucer did not stand alone. Wiclif's prose, the admirable poetry that Gower composed in three languages, and the powerful satiric verse of Piers Plowman give ample evidence of this. Among the poets of the time no one except Chaucer was greater than the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Pearl, whose name and personality are still unknown. Though a learned man of the world like Chaucer, he wrote in the dialect of northwestern England rather than of London, which must have seemed difficult to most readers even in his own time. Why he chose such an obscure dialect has never been understood. The writer of this paper calls attention to the eloquent defence of his native speech that Dante made in his Convivio, and suggests that the Gawain poet may have been inspired by it to do for his own dialect what the great Italian had done for Tuscan.

Sir John Stanley (c. 1350-1414) and the Gawain-Poet

Arthuriana ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Breeze
Keyword(s):  
Gawain Poet

The Gawain-Poet: Studies in His Personality and Background. Henry Lyttleton Savage

Speculum ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 858-861
Author(s):  
John Conley
Keyword(s):  
Gawain Poet
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