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One record of the canonical Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), cited at https://www.alexanarch.org/captures/who-wrote-pearl-and-other-poems-aio-20260915/. the canonical Capture Registry (version 12.174) · the address page · this card in the gallery · this record as data · table of contents.

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Reference & General Knowledge2026-09-15
who wrote pearl and other poems
BROAD MATCHGoogle Search, All tab, dark theme; signed out; 48239 Detroit from IP or past activity; pasted as page text 2026-09-15. Wave 1 of the world strata run.
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THE TITLE RESOLVES ENTIRELY TO THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY. Asked who wrote 'Pearl and Other Poems' — the exact title of a 2014 collection with an ISBN, a publisher and a listing on six retail surfaces — the composition answers with the Gawain Poet and the Cotton Nero A.x manuscript, and nothing in the organic field at this address carries the 2014 book either. The nearest thing is an Amazon listing for a different book, 'pearls & other poems' by Jason Price.
Full record — 3,009 characters, 4 sources
Capture record
captured
2026-09-15
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Google AI Overview
auth state
signed out
evidence class
paste
citations read
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observation id
OBS-1347b535284f
address id
ADDR-5bcb4a07d8a7
Reading

The untied arm of the Pearl pair. The composition's answer is not wrong about its own object — the Middle English Pearl is a real referent of the string — but the queried string is the exact title of another catalogued book, and that referent is reached at neither layer. Panel item P-CAT-PEARL, adjacent form: 1 of 2, DS 0.5. Read beside the tied arm captured in the same session, it is a clean level-transport pair at the entity level rather than the operator level.

Findings
Analysis analyst prose, not machine text

Seated 2026-09-15 as wave 1 of the flattening panel's world strata (EA-FLAT-01 §4): eight items with no prior observation, run in one session, signed out, one surface. Coding is by TACHYON with the operator and is NOT blind — the panel's conflation targets were authored in the same session, and the schema records blind:false on every row of this wave. Distinction inventories are the panel's; where an inventory proved incomplete it was corrected in the same commit and the correction recorded.

Machine text, verbatim
CAPTURE-TIME VERBATIM RECORD — the composition and the organic layer as pasted by the operator (paired-layer). NOTE: the operator reports that select-all on this surface does not currently select the Overview's source cards, only the organic results; chips recorded here are those that appeared inline in the pasted text, and their absence in a given capture is a limitation of the capture method, not an observation about the composition. · complete as pasted; Overview chips partially captured (see transcript_class) · READ IN FULL 2026-09-15
**USER:** who wrote pearl and other poems **GOOGLE AI OVERVIEW:** An anonymous 14th-century writer known as the Gawain Poet or Pearl Poet wrote Pearl and its companion poems. [Duquesne University +1] The Pearl Manuscript Collection — All four core works survive in a single 14th-century vellum manuscript (Cotton Nero A.x): [Poetry Foundation +1] Pearl: A dream vision where a grieving father talks to a heavenly maiden representing his lost toddler. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: An Arthurian chivalric romance. Cleanness (or Purity): Biblical narrative poems on moral themes. Patience: A poetic paraphrase of the biblical book of Jonah. [Wikipedia +5] Note: Some scholars also suggest the same author wrote Saint Erkenwald, though it is not in the same manuscript. [Miami Dade College +1] Explore More — Read the Middle English texts or translations via the Middle English Texts Series. Check historical context and manuscript details on the Poetry Foundation Gawain Poet Profile. Suggested Follow-Ups — Want to read a modern translation? J.R.R. Tolkien translated Pearl alongside Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Curious about the language? These works use a late-medieval North-West Midlands dialect distinct from Geoffrey Chaucer's London English. **ORGANIC LAYER:** 1. Wikipedia — "Gawain Poet" [People also ask: What are the 10 most famous poems? · What is considered the oldest English poem? · What language was Sir Gawain originally written in? · When was the Pearl-Poet writing?] 2. Duquesne University — "The Gawain-Poet: A Research Guide" 3. Poetry Foundation — "Gawain Poet" 4. WordPress — "Pearl-Poet" 5. Miami Dade College — "Medieval and Renaissance Literature: Pearl Poet" 6. Amazon.com — "pearls & other poems - Price, Jason: Books" 7. reginajeffers.blog — "Anglo-Norman Literature: The Pearl Poet" 8. Wikisource — "Pearl Poet" 9. Reddit · r/todayilearned — "TIL that the author of the medieval poem, 'Gawain and the Green Knight,' ..." [Footer: 48239, Detroit, MI — Based on your past activity · Dark theme: on · Sign in]
Sources (4) as cited, and as the copy produced them
  1. Duquesne University third_party
    +1 undisclosed
  2. Poetry Foundation third_party
    +1 undisclosed
  3. Wikipedia third_party
    +5 undisclosed
  4. Miami Dade College third_party
    +1 undisclosed
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