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Der Busant written in Middle High German, early 14th century; earliest surviving manuscript fragment c.1380. Lamentations of Mary, first recorded Hungarian language poem, is transcribed at the beginning of the century. Eric's Chronicle, written sometime between 1320 and 1332 by an unknown author, Sweden. [2]
14th; 15th; 16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. C. ... Pages in category "14th-century poems"
Pearl (Middle English: Perle) is a late 14th-century Middle English poem that is considered one of the most important surviving Middle English works. With elements of medieval allegory and from the dream vision genre, the poem is written in a North-West Midlands variety of Middle English and is highly—though not consistently—alliterative; there is, among other stylistic features, a complex ...
The events inspire the late 16th century play The Life and Death of Jack Straw, [4] Robert Southey's dramatic poem Wat Tyler , [5] and novels such as Pierce Egan the Younger's Wat Tyler , [6] William Harrison Ainsworth's Merry England [7] and William Morris's A Dream of John Ball . [8]
14th-century poems (4 C, 86 P) 14th-century poets (21 C, 7 P) Pages in category "14th-century poetry" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
The original manuscript of the poem, BL Harley MS 2253 f.63 v "Alysoun" or "Alison", also known as "Bytuene Mersh ant Averil", is a late-13th or early-14th century poem in Middle English dealing with the themes of love and springtime through images familiar from other medieval poems.
The Gawain Poet (fl. c. 1375 –1400), manuscript painting (as the father in Pearl) The "Gawain Poet" (/ ˈ ɡ ɑː w eɪ n, ˈ ɡ æ-,-w ɪ n, ɡ ə ˈ w eɪ n / GA(H)-wayn, -win, gə-WAYN; [1] [2] fl. late 14th century), or less commonly the "Pearl Poet", [3] is the name given to the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an alliterative poem written in 14th-century Middle English.
All four of the main poems in the manuscript were written by a single scribe using a Gothic textura rotunda script rather than the cursiva script that would be more usual in a late 14th-century vernacular poetry manuscript. The hand has been described as "distinctive, rather delicate [and] angular".