The Gawain-Poet in Patience stresses the need to learn patience. Newhauser [NEWHAUSER97] (p.261) rather over-stresses this when he says “The poem enforces the impression that the poet himself was hard at work learning the lesson of patience” .
Faced with a new life in exile, a new language, and new responsibilities, James Cottrell certainly had need to learn patience.
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