Généralités

• Davenport, W. A., The Art of the Gawain-Poet, London, Athlone Press, 1978, xiii + 233 p.
• Fischer, John H., « Wyclif, Langland, Gower, and the Pearl Poet on the subject of aristocracy », Studies in Medieval Literature in Honor of Professor Albert Croll Baugh, éd. MacEdward Leach, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1961, p. 139-157. [IA]
• Gilbert, Jane, Living Death in Medieval French and English Literature, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 84), 2011, viii + 283 p. ISBN: 9780511777295, 9781107003835
• Holley, Linda Tarte, Reason and Imagination in Chaucer, the Perle-Poet, and the Cloud-Author: Seeing from the Center, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan (The New Middle Ages), 2011, xvi + 184 p. ISBN: 9780230105102
• Peterson, Clifford J., « The Pearl-Poet and John Massey of Cotton, Cheshire », The Review of English Studies, n. s., 25 (99), 1974, p. 257-266.
• Savage, Henry Lyttleton, The Gawain-Poet: Studies in his Personality and Background, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1956, xviii + 236 p.