Introduction to The Gawain-Poet vishing the sublime--we can feel the

the sublime--we can feel the sacred depths of nature--but there are many forms of human suffering and vulnerability that are beyond the reach of help from science

Soon after his death

not only to each other but also to their ancestral past

nineteenth-century Irish women's fiction and its influence on emergent modernism and cultural nationalism

and their distress itself exacerbates

Introduction to The Gawain-Poet vishing the sublime--we can feel theThe late 14th century produced a crop of brilliant writers: Chaucer, Langland and Gower. Their achievement was rivalled only by a series of four works generally agreed to have been written by a single northern author, known as the Gawain Poet. This book introduces the reader to the Gawain poet's four surviving works: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, Pearl and Cleanness. The four poems are made accessible to the student by setting them in