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

Autor Ad Putter, Myra Stokes
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 iun 2014
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 romanceSir 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 ofPearldepicts a bereaved father whose lost child leads him to glimpse heaven. And in moral poems based on stories from the Bible,Cleannesswarns against sins of the flesh and of desecration, whilePatienceencourages readers to endure suffering as God's will.


Little is known about the so-called 'Gawain poet', who wrote during the late fourteenth century. It is believed that he came from south-east Cheshire, an important cultural and economic centre at the time, and he was clearly well-read in Latin, French and English. Although he is not named as the author ofSir Gawain and the Green Knight,Pearl,Patience,Cleanness, the four works have been attributed to him based on a careful comparison of their language, date and themes.

Myra Stokes was formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Bristol University. Her books includeJustice and Mercy in Piers PlowmanandThe Language of Jane Austen.

Ad Putter teaches at the English Department and the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of Bristol, where is Professor of Medieval English Literature. His monographs includeSir Gawain and the Green Knight and French Arthurian RomanceandAn Introduction to the Gawain Poet, and he is also co-editor ofThe Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780140424140
ISBN-10: 0140424148
Pagini: 1040
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 44 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Little is known about the so-called 'Gawain poet', who wrote during the late fourteenth century. It is believed that he came from south-east Cheshire, an important cultural and economic centre at the time, and he was clearly well-read in Latin, French and English. Although he is not named as the author ofSir Gawain and the Green Knight,Pearl,Patience,Cleanness, the four works have been attributed to him based on a careful comparison of their language, date and themes.

Myra Stokes was formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Bristol University. Her books includeJustice and Mercy in Piers PlowmanandThe Language of Jane Austen.

Ad Putter teaches at the English Department and the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of Bristol, where is Professor of Medieval English Literature. His monographs includeSir Gawain and the Green Knight and French Arthurian RomanceandAn Introduction to the Gawain Poet, and he is also co-editor ofThe Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend.

Recenzii

The Works of the Gawain Poetis a model of popular scholarship, one that harkens back to the glories of the old historical criticism of Tolkien and Henry Sweet. That it has appeared not under the imprimatur of a university press but as a reasonably priced paperback from Penguin Classics is a pleasant surprise. It belongs on the shelves of every library in the English-speaking world
All of the poems are presented, rather daringly, in their original Middle English (very slightly cleaned up), and the array of critical materials dart very nimbly around theGawainpoet's wide reading - though anonymous, this poet was surely one of the best-read writers of his age - and the end-product effect is to provide readers with something very close to a fourteenth century First Folio. It's a marvelous performance all around
This is an authoritative and accessible edition, that is likely to become the standard text on undergraduate reading lists, as well as helping to bring the poems to a much wider non-specialist readership