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The Alliterative Revival is a term adopted by literary historians to refer to the resurgence of poetry using the alliterative verse form in Middle English between c. 1350 and 1500. Alliterative verse was the traditional verse form of Old English poetry ; the last known alliterative poem prior to the Revival was Layamon 's Brut , which dates ...
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.
The poem occurs in a single manuscript, British Library Additional MS. 31042, also called the London Thornton Manuscript.This manuscript was compiled in the mid-15th century by Robert Thornton, a member of the provincial landed gentry of Yorkshire, who seems to have made a collection of instructional, religious and other texts for the use of his family.
Petrarch (1304-1374). 1323 – The name Pléiade is adopted by a group of fourteen poets (seven men and seven women) in Toulouse.; 1324: 3 May (Holy Cross Day) – The Consistori del Gay Saber, founded the previous year in Toulouse to revive and perpetuate the lyric poetry of the Old Occitan troubadors, holds its first contest.
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Unlike in other Germanic languages, where alliterative verse has largely fallen out of use (except for deliberate revivals, like Richard Wagner's 19th-century German Ring Cycle [13]), alliteration has remained a vital feature of Icelandic poetry. [14] After the 14th Century, Icelandic alliterative poetry mostly consisted of rímur, [15] a verse ...
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Der Busant written in Middle High German, early 14th century; earliest surviving manuscript fragment c.1380. Lamentations of Mary, first recorded Hungarian language poem, is transcribed at the beginning of the century. Eric's Chronicle, written sometime between 1320 and 1332 by an unknown author, Sweden. [2]