Pearl

An edition of the fourteenth-century poem Pearl, concerning a father's grief for the death of his infant daughter, whom he then meets in a dream. She attempts to bring him to an understanding of the place of death in the divine plan. It is one of four works by the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

About the author

Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Arts, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom)

Thorlac Turville-Petre is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nottingham. His many authored works include Reading Middle English Literature (Blackwell, 2007); (with Ralph Hanna) The Wollaton Medieval Manuscripts: Texts, Owners and Readers (Boydell, 2010); Poems from BL MS Harley 913 'The Kildare Manuscript' EETS OS 345 (OUP, 2015); Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative Poetry (LUP, 2018); (with J. A. Burrow) A Book of Middle English, 4th edn. (Blackwell, 2021).

Summary

Pearl is celebrated as a jewel among medieval poems, although it is the most challenging of the four works by the anonymous author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. This new critical edition is designed to offer the maximum support for the reader of the poem.

Product details

• Authors: Thorlac Turville-Petre, Thorlac (Professor Emeritus Turville-Petre
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2023
• EAN: 9781802078947
• ISBN: 978-1-80207-894-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies