Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo
Ranked #38 in Arthurian, Ranked #43 in Tolkien — see more rankings.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines religious and social values.
Pearl is apparently an elegy on the death of a child, a poem pervaded with a sense of great personal loss: but, like Gawain it is also a sophisticated and moving debate on much less tangible matters.
Sir Orfeo is a slighter romance,... more
Pearl is apparently an elegy on the death of a child, a poem pervaded with a sense of great personal loss: but, like Gawain it is also a sophisticated and moving debate on much less tangible matters.
Sir Orfeo is a slighter romance,... more
Rankings by Category
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo is ranked in the following categories:
- #67 in Medieval
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