The Poems of The Pearl Manuscript, 5th Edition: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Gawain and the Green Knight
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780859897907 (0859897907)
Publish date: March 15th 2008
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Pages no: 414
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...