A Companion to the Gawain-Poet

by Derek S. Brewer

Book Overview

Provides an excellent one-volume guide to the works of the anonymous Gawain-poet.' CHOICE

The essays collected here on the Gawain-Poet offer stimulating introductions to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and Patience, providing both information and original analysis. Topics includetheories of authorship; the historical and social background to the poems, with individual sections on particularly important features within them;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859915298
• ISBN13: 9780859915298
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"