The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript in Modern English Prose: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781905816026 (1905816022)
Publish date: November 15th 2008
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Pages no: 160
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...