An Introduction to the "Gawain" Poet.
- Author / Editor
- Bowers, John M.
An Introduction to the "Gawain" Poet.
- Published
- Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2012.
- Physical Description
- xvii, 205 pp.
- Description
- Places the "Gawain"-poet "within the context of Richard II's court and its numerous intrigues" (ix), with chapters on each of his poems (including "Saint Erkenwald"); a life; "A Survey of Sources and Influences"; and a chronology, glossary of critical terms, and index. The index lists many references to Chaucer (ten to LGW alone), including one that asserts that Chaucer "seems alone among Londoners in knowing anything about" "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
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