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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.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century chivalric romance in Middle English alliterative verse.The author is unknown; the title was given centuries later. It is one of the best-known Arthurian stories, with its plot combining two types of folk motifs: the beheading game and the exchange of winnings.
The Middle High German romance Diu Crône (The Crown) by Heinrich von dem Türlin, in which Gawain is the protagonist who achieves the Grail and heals the Fisher King, also features a minor character of "the other Gawain": his lookalike, Aamanz. "Sir Gawain seized his lance and bade them farewell", Frank T. Merrill's illustration for A Knight ...
Children's literature portal; The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady is a book written by Gerald Morris.Its prequel is The Squire's Tale, also written by Gerald Morris.. The plot is based on the late 14th century Arthurian romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
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 tempting of Sir Gawain by Bertilak's wife, folio 129 r The text of the Pearl Manuscript is commonly dated on palaeographical grounds to the last quarter of the 14th century, or at the latest to the beginning of the 15th century, the illustrations being added at either the same time as the text or a little later.
Sir Gawain, by courteously complying with the Carle's every request, has broken the spell and ended the dreadful custom of killing. Sir Gawain and his companions ride to King Arthur with an invitation from the Carle for the king to visit his castle. King Arthur makes the journey and he is welcomed with the finest feast imaginable.
The rules by which alliterative verse was composed in Middle English are unclear and have been the subject of much debate. No metrical rules were written down at the time, and their details were quickly forgotten once the form died out: Robert Crowley, in his 1550 printing of Piers Plowman, simply stated that each line had "thre wordes at the least [...] whiche beginne with some one letter ...