An Introduction to the Gawain-poetLongman, 1996 - 256 من الصفحات The Gawain-Poet is the name given to the northern poet who is generally accepted as the sole author of four 14th-century Gawain poems. This text introduces the reader to the poems, setting the works in their relevant historical and cultural context and developing lines of critical argument. |
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The poets way of reading | 11 |
A historical context for alliterative poetry from the north west Midlands | 28 |
Romance and realism | 45 |
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طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Abraham adventure alliterative metre alliterative poetry alliterative verse Arthur Arthurian romance audience become Beheading Game Belshazzar Bertilac Bible biblical blessed Book of Jonah bope Castle Hautdesert Chaucer Cheshire Christ cleric Cotton Nero A.x. court Dante Dreamer English Erkenwald Exchange of Winnings exemplum fact feast fitt Gawain-poet God's Green Chapel Green Knight grene heaven heavenly hert host human hyze Lady Latin lines London look lord Lot's maiden manuscript Marbod of Rennes meaning medieval moral narrator neuer Nineveh north west Midlands Old Testament parable passage Patience Pearl Pearl-maiden Penne Percy Folio Piers Plowman poem poet poet's quen reader reading revelation Rose schal schulde seems sense sermon Sir Gawain Sodomites Stanley stanza story suffering suggests tion trawpe vpon Vulgate watz west Midlands whale wonys words wyth wythouten þat þay þaz þenne þer þis þou