EN477 Patience/Cleanness Dissertation

There are four poems miraculously preserved in a single manuscript by an unknown poet, who is usually called the Gawain poet. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” and “Pearl” are considered works of genius, but the two other poems “Patience” and “Cleanness” are less celebrated.

When it came to looking at a dissertation topic, when my other suggestions were discouraged as being monumentally boring, Dr Moores was OK with me looking at the less celebrated of the poet’s works.

Most of this appears to be a combination of overeach and wishful thinking but if you ever were looking for a contrarian reading of these poems have a look.

I did spend an awful lot of time and effort on it and she did give me a grade of 7 (out of 7). I think she rightly struggled with my style suggesting that I wrote arts essays like a scientist.

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…and there ended my studies at the University of Queensland and logically should have ended my studies altogether.

It didn’t and I did use UQ libraries a lot when I embarked on further studies later on. This was because they were just better than the ACU library at Banyo, except for niche areas, and I was more familiar with them.