Language and imagination in the Gawain-poems
Looking at the significance of the famous 14th-century poems 'Pearl', 'Cleanness', 'Patience' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight', this text examines how the poems reveal the underlying struggles between religious and secular forces for the control of men's minds
Print Book, English, 2005
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, Manchester, UK, New York, 2005
Criticism, interpretation, etc
247 pages ; 23 cm.
9780719053535, 9780719071027, 0719053536, 071907102X
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Pearl : the last shall be first
Cleanness : the wages of sin
Patience : the Lord hath given, the Lord hath taken away
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : the beautiful lie
The poet and his times