The Gawain-Poet: Studies in His Personality and Background

xviii, 236pp. Blue cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Rubbed corners and spine ends, shelf number label taped to spine; staining to boards; quite cocked. Text block edges just starting to tan, signs of use on fore edge. Lender's stamps and markings on front endpapers and copyright page; volume shaken;. Otherwise, internally neat, clean, bright and tight. The Gawain Poet, or less commonly the Pearl Poet is the name given to the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an alliterative poem written in 14th century Middle English. Its author appears also to have written the poems Pearl, Patience, and Cleanness and some scholars suggest he may also have composed Saint Erkenwald. His body of work includes some of the most well-regarded Middle English poetry.