Généralités

• Davenport, W. A., The Art of the Gawain-Poet, London, Athlone Press, 1978, xiii + 233 p.
• 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.