The Gawain Poet

This book studies separately Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain.

About the author

John Burrow is Emeritus Professor and Research Fellow, University of Bristol. He has had a distinguished academic career as a medieval specialist at the Universities of London, Oxford, Yale and Bristol and is Honorary Director of the Early English Text Society. His many publications include: A reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1965); as editor, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1972); Ricardian Poetry (1971); Medieval Writers and Their Work (1982).

Summary

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 on interpretation, and on such explanations as a modern reader may require. All quotations cited from the poems are translated as well.

Product details

• Authors: J. A. Burrow, Steve Burrow
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.01.2000
• EAN: 9780746308783
• ISBN: 978-0-7463-0878-3
• No. of pages: 120
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 215 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 136 g
• Illustrations: Fr.
• Series: Writers and Their Work (Paperb; Writers and Their Work
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies