Book Blurb
The fire that ravaged the famous Cottonian Library in 1731 fortunately spared a small and undistinguished-looking manuscript of the late fourteenth century. Now safely housed in the British Library, this unique manuscript preserves for us three of our finest religious poems, Pearl, Cleanness, and Patience, and the ‘best boke of romaunce’ in English literature, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Edited by A.C. Cawley and J.J. Anderson
With an Introduction by A.C. Cawley
About the Author
Arthur Clare Cawley (1913-1993) was Professor of English Language and Medieval English Literature at the University of Leeds.
