Early English Alliterative Poems / in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century
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Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400, composed by an anonymous master, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was rediscovered only two hundred years ago, and published for the first time in 1839. One of the earliest great stories of English literature after Beowulf, the poem narrates in crystalline verse the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts the Round Table festivities one Yuletide, casting a pall of unease over the company and challenging one of their number to a wager. The virtuous Gawain accepts and decapitates the intruder with h...
Chapters (68)
- RICHARD MORRIS
- PREFACE.
- REMARKS UPON THE DIALECT AND GRAMMAR.
- GRAMMATICAL DETAILS.
- DESCRIPTION OF THE MANUSCRIPT USED IN THE PRESENT VOLUME.67
- CONTRACTIONS USED IN THE GLOSSARY.
- Collected Sidenotes
- The Pearl: Sidenotes
- Cleanness: Sidenotes
- Patience: Sidenotes
- Text and Layout
- THE PEARL.
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- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- IX.
- X.
- XI.
- XII.
- XIII.
- XIV.
- XV.
- XVI.
- XVII.
- XVIII.
- XIX.
- XX.
- XXI.
- Notes to The Pearl.
- CLEANNESS.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- IX.
- X.
- XI.
- XII.
- XIII.
- Notes to Cleanness.
- PATIENCE.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- Notes to Patience.
- GLOSSARIAL INDEX
- RICHARD MORRIS
- PREFACE.
- REMARKS UPON THE DIALECT AND GRAMMAR.
- GRAMMATICAL DETAILS.
- DESCRIPTION OF THE MANUSCRIPT USED IN THE PRESENT VOLUME.67
- CONTRACTIONS USED IN THE GLOSSARY.
- Collected Sidenotes
- The Pearl: Sidenotes
- Cleanness: Sidenotes
- Patience: Sidenotes
- Text and Layout
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