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Cotton Nero A. x. * Despenser family. * Great Britain -- History -- Edward III, 1327-1377. * Great Britain -- History -- Richard II, 1377-1399. More Like This * View Results More by * Meyer, Ann R. * MUSE * Google Scholar * Find in a library(R) More MUSE Journals in * Literature * Medieval and Renaissance Studies Bookmark / Share * CiteULike Connotea * del.icio.us Facebook * Google Bookmarks * Twitter Frequently Downloaded Articles * The Worthiness of Chaucer's Worthy Knight * The Wife of Bath, Christine de Pizan, and the Medieval Case for Women.* * The Cipher of Chivalry: Violence as Courtly Play in the World of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight See more from this journal See Also * Free Sample Issues * Current Subscribers * How to Subscribe The Chaucer Review Volume 35, Number 4, 2001 E-ISSN: 1528-4204 Print ISSN: 0009-2002 DOI: 10.1353/cr.2001.0004 Ann R. Meyer The Despensers and the Gawain Poet: A Gloucestershire Link to the Alliterative Master of the Northwest Midlands The Chaucer Review - Volume 35, Number 4, 2001, pp. 413-429 Penn State University Press Ann R. Meyer - The Despensers and the Gawain Poet: A Gloucestershire Link to the Alliterative Master of the Northwest Midlands - The Chaucer Review 35:4 The Chaucer Review 35.4 (2001) 413-429 The Despensers and the Gawain Poet: A Gloucestershire Link to the Alliterative Master of the Northwest Midlands Ann R. Meyer During the second half of the fourteenth century in England, four alliterative poems written in the dialect of the northwest midlands were compiled in a single manuscript known as Cotton Nero A.x, now on display at the British Museum. Most scholars believe that the poems, familiar to modern readers as Pearl, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Cleanness, and Patience, were written either by a single author or a small school of poets from Cheshire. It has been argued, as well, that the late fourteenth-century alliterative poem, St. Erkenwald, also written in the dialect of the northwest midlands, was a product of the same Cheshire poet (or poets) who produced the Cotton Nero poems. Some of the most useful recent scholarship on the Cotton Nero poems has drawn attention to Richard II's activities in the northwest midlands during the later years of his reign. Michael J. Bennett, for example, has argued that the native home of the Gawain poet was Richard's newly formed principality of Cheshire. The poet was either a member of the royal court or had close ties with the court through the mediation of an aristocratic patron with Ricardian sympathies.... Project MUSE(R) - View Citation * MLA * APA * Chicago * Endnote -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ann R. Meyer. "The Despensers and the Gawain Poet: A Gloucestershire Link to the Alliterative Master of the Northwest Midlands." The Chaucer Review 35.4 (2001): 413-429. Project MUSE. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 1 Mar. 2010 <http://muse.jhu.edu/>. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Always review your references for accuracy and make any necessary corrections before using. Pay special attention to personal names, capitalization, and dates. Consult your library or click here for more information on citing sources. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ann R. Meyer. (2001). The despensers and the gawain poet: A gloucestershire link to the alliterative master of the northwest midlands. The Chaucer Review 35(4), 413-429. 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Consult your library or click here for more information on citing sources. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TY - JOUR T1 - The Despensers and the Gawain Poet: A Gloucestershire Link to the Alliterative Master of the Northwest Midlands A1 - Ann R. Meyer JF - The Chaucer Review VL - 35 IS - 4 SP - 413 EP - 429 Y1 - 2001 PB - Penn State University Press SN - 1528-4204 UR - http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/chaucer_review/v035/35.4meyer.html N1 - Volume 35, Number 4, 2001 ER - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Always review your references for accuracy and make any necessary corrections before using. Pay special attention to personal names, capitalization, and dates. Consult your library or click here for more information on citing sources. 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