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Poetry-14-15C-bib - 9/24/14

A bibliography and links to late 14th and early 15th Century poets and poetry by Deirdre O'Bardon.

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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 10:24:34 -0700

From: Deirdre O'Bardon

To: Merry Rose <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>, Merry Rose

Subject: [MR] Poets of the late 14th and early 15th century

Do you want to do the poetry challenge at Coronation? If you do and you are looking for a place to start in researching poetry written in the late 14th or early 15th century, I've pulled together a short list of some poets of the Late 14th and Early 15th Century along with links to their poetry and minimal info on the poet. Have fun! I'm sure you will find many more poets and poems if you look.

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400)

Best known for the Canterbury Tales

Sometimes credited as first major poet to write in English vernacular

Closely associate with John of Gaunt, Katherine de Roet (Swynford) and the British royal family.

http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/geoffrey-chaucer

http://www.poemhunter.com/geoffrey-chaucer/

http://www.poemhunter.com/geoffrey-chaucer/poems/ (Original language poems)

John Barbour (c.1320 ? 13 March 1395)

Scottish poet

Best known for the historical verse romance, The Brus (The Bruce)

http://www.poemhunter.com/john-barbour/poems/ (Original language poems)

The Pearl Poet (Name unknown. DOB and DOD unknown.)

It is believed that one poet wrote Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

These poems are contained in a single manuscript identified as British Library MS Cotton Nero A.x., Art.3 that dates to the end of the fourteenth or beginning of the fifteenth century.

However, the poems themselves are believed to date to the late fourteenth century and were written in Northern England.

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~comitatu/PDF/Misc/misc_pearl_overview.pdf

http://www.alliteration.net/Pearlman.html

http://user.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/~holteir/companion/Navigation/Authors/Pearl-Poet/pearl-poet.html

http://lit.genius.com/The-pearl-poet-pearl-annotated (The Pearl in Middle English)

http://lit.genius.com/The-pearl-poet-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-passus-i-annotated (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight original language)

William Langland (1325 - 1390)

Conjectured author of the 14th-century English dream-vision Piers Plowman

http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/langland.htm

http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/authors/langland/pp-pro.html (Text translations)

http://piers.iath.virginia.edu/about/williamLangland.html

http://piers.iath.virginia.edu/texts.html (Original language text)