SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
EDITIONS.
- Syr Gawayne, ed. Sir F. Madden, for the Bannatyne Club, 1839. A diplomatic text. Other Middle English romances which have Gawain as their hero are included. The only edition with full notes.
- Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight, ed. R. Morris, for the E.E.T.S., 1864. Corrects some of the errors in Madden's text. There are a few notes and a glossary (incomplete, of little value). Text revised by Sir. I. Gollancz, 1897 and 1912.
- Lines 2069-2488, excellently ed. K. Sisam in Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose, with glossary by J. R. R. Tolkien, Oxford, 1921.
Editions of the other poems ascribed to the author of Sir Gawain.
- Early English Alliterative Poems, ed. R. Morris for the E.E.T.S., 1867, revised 1869; contains Pearl, Cleanness (Purity), and Patience. Good text, the apparatus somewhat out of date.
- Pearl, ed. Osgood, Boston, 1906.
ed. Sir I. Gollancz, with metrical translations, London, 1891; revised edition, together with Boccaccio’s Olympia, 1921. - Purity, ed. R. J. Menner, Yale Univ. Press, 1920.
ed. Sir I. Gollancz, as Cleanness, London, 1922. The glossary and illustrative texts have not yet appeared. - Patience, ed. Sir I. Gollancz, London, 1913.
ed. H. Bateson, Manchester Univ. Press, 1912, 2nd edition, 1915. - Saint Erkenwald, ed. C. Horstmann, in Altenglische Legendun (Neue Folg), Heilbronn, 1881 (text only).
ed. Sir I. Gollancz, London, 1922
FACSIMILIE
- Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain, reproduced in facsimile from MS. Cotton Nero A. x. in the British Museum, with an introduction by Sir I. Gollancz, E.E.T.S., 1923. The introduction contains a list of the textual emendations proposed.
