The author is unknown, but well educated man, behavior and ideas. He probably wrote the three religious poems (Pearl, Patience, and Purity), preserved in the same autographic as Sir Gawain. It is impossible to date the poem, but the author must have been a contemporary of Chaucer. The authors of “Sir Gawain and Piers Plowman” represented cultural centers on a royal court where Geoffrey Chaucer lived. The author of Sir Gawain was a writer that lived in the city with a dialect very difficult for us and for Londoners in their times. About the provincial centers, nothing has been knowing, but the high level of culture grows with the works demonstrated.
It is alliterative preserving a different manuscript – a lovely legend of St. Erkenwald. The provincial England originated a dialect of Sir Gawain, so far from northwest of the capital.
Sir Gawain combines two plots, common in folklore and romance, blows with a sword or ax and seduction of the hero by a lady. Probably in a vegetation myth (anciente folklore), the reason of the green man's decapitation. There is a rare combination on this poem: a comedy and a Christian view. Gawain is dedicated to Christians ideals and prowess in defense of the right.
Sir Gawain was a Knight of the Round Table, King Arthur's nephew. Sir Gawain
It is a romance: latest and the best of the Midle English romances. The alliterative tradition continues, but the handful one survives and inhere to the Alliterative Revival.
The Midle English preserves Old English verse in essential features: it does not note that is longer, stress and rules alliteration.
There is a one stanza matching to the alliteration and rhyme.
I do not know much about the author, but his work was very important in Medieval English Literature.
The Norton anthology of English literature. The major authors / M. H.
Abrams, general editor.-6th ed. 1996.
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