Patience

E67101

Middle English poem alliterative poem religious poem

Patience is a Middle English alliterative poem, often attributed to the Pearl Poet, that offers a moral and religious meditation on the virtue of patient endurance through the biblical story of Jonah.

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Middle English poem → alliterative poem → religious poem →
associatedAuthor	Gawain Poet →
attributionStatus	anonymous →
author	Pearl Poet →
authorshipCertainty	attributed →
basedOn	Book of Jonah →
biblicalSource	Old Testament →
containedWith	Cleanness → Pearl → Sir Gawain and the Green Knight →
countryOfOrigin	England →
criticalReception	important work of Middle English religious poetry →
didacticPurpose	moral instruction → religious meditation →
didacticTechnique	exemplum →
genre	biblical paraphrase → didactic poetry → religious literature →
language	Middle English →
literaryForm	alliterative verse →
literaryMovement	Alliterative Revival →
mainCharacter	Jonah →
manuscript	Cotton Nero A.x →
manuscriptLocation	British Library →
meter	alliterative long line →
moralFocus	patient endurance → virtue of patience →
narrativeMode	first-person narrator →
originalLanguage	Middle English →
period	late 14th century →
relatedWorkByAuthor	Cleanness → Pearl → Sir Gawain and the Green Knight →
religiousGenre	homiletic poem →
religiousTradition	Christianity →
settingOfNarrative	Nineveh → ancient Israel →
theme	God’s justice → divine mercy → humility → obedience to God → patience → repentance → suffering and endurance →
virtueIllustrated	patience → trust in divine providence →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Cotton Nero A.x → Cotton Nero A.x manuscript collection →	containsWork
Ricardian poets →	associatedWithWork
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight →	includedWith
The Gawain Poet →	notableWork
Alliterative Revival →	producedWork
Pearl (poem) →	writtenInSameManuscriptAs