
Language and imagination in the Gawain poems
This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, ''Pearl'', ''Cleanness'', ''Patience'' and ''Sir Gawain and the Green Knight''. It is a comprehensive study which puts the poems themselves firmly at its centre, though it is always alert to relevant aspects of their literary and cultural context. John Anderson builds his discussi...
This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, ''Pearl'', ''Cleanness'', ''Patience'' and ''Sir Gawain and the Green Knight''. It is a comprehensive study which puts the poems themselves firmly at its centre, though it is always alert to relevant aspects of their literary and cultural context. John Anderson builds his discussi...