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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.
Samuel Ogden Andrew (1868 – 1952) (the 'S. O. Andrew' of academic publications) was an English classical and Anglo-Saxon scholar, translator and headmaster, known for his verse translations of The Iliad (1938, selections) and The Odyssey (1948, complete) and of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1931). He was also known for his books on ...
The storyline effectively parallels the more famous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in describing the dealings of Gawain, King Arthur's nephew, with the Greene Knight. The text was edited by Thomas Hahn for the Camelot Project. Key differences adduced by Hahn from the longer poem include rapid pacing, more explicit character motivations, and a ...
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.
It is notably used by the poet known as the Pearl Poet in the ballad Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The feature is found mainly in Middle English and Middle Scots. There are at least forty known examples of the bob and wheel. The origin of the form is not known; it predates Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
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.
It is one of the best-known Middle English manuscripts, [2] the only one containing alliterative verse solely, [3] and the oldest surviving English manuscript to have full-page illustrations. It contains the only surviving copies of four of the masterpieces of medieval English literature: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness, and ...
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.