Quat Is This Fairy Burial Mound? The Gawain-Poet's Green Moment in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

Author / Editor
Veck, Sonya.

Title
Quat Is This Fairy Burial Mound? The Gawain-Poet's Green Moment in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

Published
Kathleen A. Bishop, ed. Standing in the Shadow of the Master? Chaucerian Influences and Interpretations (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010), pp. 113-22.

Description
Because of the lack of manuscript history, the works of the Gawain-poet must be studied in contexts different from those of Chaucer and his London contemporaries. The seriousness of poetic temperament is pronounced throughout the narrative of the poem.

Alternative Title
Standing in the Shadow of the Master?

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations