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Even in the 14th century "Lament for Lleucu Llwyd" was a famous poem, always the first to be asked for wherever young people gathered together according to Iolo Goch, who also praised it (or he may have been referring to the whole series of Llywelyn's Lleucu poems) as a work that would appeal to that philandering poet King David in Heaven and ensure his advocacy for Llywelyn's salvation.
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"
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]
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.
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 ...
Most of the poems are Minnesang, but there are also other genres, including fables and Spruchdichtung (didactic poems). The oldest poets represented in the manuscript had been dead for more than a century at the time of its compilations, while others were contemporaries, the latest even late additions of poems written during the early 14th century.
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.