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Patience (Middle English: Pacience) is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the "Pearl Poet" or "Gawain-Poet", also appears, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Cleanness (all ca. 1360–1395) and may have composed St. Erkenwald.
Winifred Emma May (4 June 1907 – 28 August 1990) was a poet from the United Kingdom, best known for her work under the pen name Patience Strong. Her poems were usually short, simple and imbued with sentimentality, the beauty of nature and inner strength.
Cleanness (Middle English: Clannesse) is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the Pearl poet or Gawain poet, also appears, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Patience, and may have also composed St. Erkenwald.
The Gawain Poet (fl. c. 1375 –1400), manuscript painting (as the father in Pearl) The "Gawain Poet" (/ ˈ ɡ ɑː w eɪ n, ˈ ɡ æ-,-w ɪ n, ɡ ə ˈ w eɪ n / GA(H)-wayn, -win, gə-WAYN; [1] [2] fl. late 14th century), or less commonly the "Pearl Poet", [3] is the name given to the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an alliterative poem written in 14th-century Middle English.
However, the references to light and darkness in the poem make it virtually certain that Milton's blindness was at least a secondary theme. The sonnet is in the Petrarchan form, with the rhyme scheme a b b a a b b a c d e c d e but adheres to the Miltonic conception of the form, with a greater usage of enjambment .
The titles given here are those used by modern editors, all the poems being untitled in the manuscript. It has been foliated twice, first in ink and later in pencil; the second foliation is used here. Pearl, ff. 41 r –59 v; Cleanness (also known as Purity), ff. 60 r –86 r; Patience, ff. 86 r –94 r; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ff. 94 ...
Pearl and Patience together wrote several novels including Telka, The Sorry Tale, Hope Trueblood, The Pot upon the Wheel, Samuel Wheaton, An Elisebethan Mask as well as several short stories and many poems. [9] The Patience Worth writings coincided with a revival of Spiritualism in the United States and Britain, possibly facilitating interest ...
Patience Agbabi FRSL (born 1965) is a British poet and performer who emphasizes the spoken word. [1] Although her poetry hits hard in addressing contemporary themes, it often makes use of formal constraints, including traditional poetic forms.