Matter of Britain Figure
The Gawain-poet
- Summary
- The anonymous North-West Midlands poet of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Patience and Cleanness, all preserved in a single manuscript (BL Cotton Nero A.x). Technically the most accomplished Arthurian writer in English, and completely unidentified.
- Kind
- author
- Floruit
- c. 1375-1400
Worldviews
Malory's Fellowship and Its Fall
Provenance
- Source method
- Web research
- Review status
- DRAFT
- Confidence
- HIGH