Complete works of the Gawain-Poet. In a Modern English version with a critical introduction ... Woodcuts

by Fritz Kredel by John Gardner

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First edition

Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1965. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xii, 2 , 347, 1 ; title page in red and black; fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. The Gawain Poet, a contemporary of Chaucer, Gower, and Langland, was 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; some scholars suggest the

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