REGIONALISM

AND
NOSTALGIA
 Regionalism
this indicates that a writer has chosen
to focus on one of the areas outside the
centers of power and organize the work
around a certain region.
 Nostalgia
It is used in literature as a way of
referring to a general as well as
specific interest in the past and past
events.
Although poets like Geoffrey Chaucer and
William Langland were concerned with
national and global matters, some of the
other poets looked back with nostalgia
upon the past and turned to regional
identity as a source of solace to amidst all
the chaos of the era.
 PEARL POET
 The author of the two anonymous works
namely “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
and “Pearl”. h
 His works are the crowning achievement of
Alliterative Revival.
 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
It tells an Arthurian tale but alters it, by telling
it in a deliberately archaic form highly
reminiscent of Anglo-Saxon poetry.
A late 14th century Middle English alliterative
romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain,
a knight of King Arthurs Round Table.
 Pearl
An intricately wrought and deeply moving
dream vision that chronicles a father’s struggle
to cope with the loss of his great pearl, now
buried in the garden.
It is an elegy for a dead child, a daughter who
died at just two years of age.
This growing tension can be found
throughout the Middle English
period, whether in the bustling city
of Chaucer or the nostalgiac
countryside of the Pearl Poet.