Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience (Everyman Library)
by:
Unknown (author)
A.C. Cawley (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780460871013 (0460871013)
Publish date: September 15th 1990
Publisher: Tuttle Pub
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Reference,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Read For School,
Historical Fiction,
Medieval,
Religion,
Poetry
PearlPreviously familiar to me from Tolkien's translation.It's tough going for the uninitiated, using original spelling (i.e. thorn, yogh, "u" for "v" etc.) and the dialect makes it even more difficult. I found it harder going even than Piers Plowman which itself is more demanding than Chaucer's dia...