Clannesse

Cleanness

Author

Pearl Poet

Language

Middle English

Year

c. 1350-1400

Country

England

Genre

Epic / Long-form / Standalone Poem

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Cleanness is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the Pearl Poet or Gawain Poet, also appears, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Patience, and may have also composed St. Erkenwald.