[PDF] The Pearl An English Vision Poem Of The Fourteenth Century eBook

Author : Marian Mead
Publisher :
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 15,73 MB
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781331179597

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Excerpt from The Pearl an English Vision-Poem of the Fourteenth Century: Done Into Modern Verse The vision, that literary form so dear to mediaeval writers, is commonly a very conventional setting. As, at a later period, a certain kind of o'er-vaulting poetic ambition would embody itself in a quantum of sentimental episodes, and a goodly number of battles, and be called an epic, so equally as a matter of course did the romantic or didactic fancy of this age feel the need of clothing itself in the pageantry of the dream. Usually such poetry presents classical figures or personified abstractions, Love, Reason, and the like, appropriately clad, and wandering about, probably, in delightful gardens, often for no particular purpose, apparently, save the edification of chance dreamers. The Romaunt of the Rose is of course the great model of this type; and the three chief English poets contemporary with the unknown author of The Pearl, Chaucer, Gower, and Langland, employed the vision-form as a convenient vehicle of their varying inspirations. Chaucer, indeed, as he came into the fullness of his powers, threw off the machinery of the dream. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Author : Marian Mead
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 50,4 MB
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781377383231

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Author : Jane Beal
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : pages
File Size : 16,17 MB
Release : 2019-12-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1770487204

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The fourteenth-century Middle English poem Pearl is one of the best dream vision poems ever written, yet its language (the Northwest Midlands dialect of late-medieval England) and literary allusions (to biblical, mythological, and medieval works) make it difficult for modern readers to understand. This new dual-language edition of Pearl provides the original Middle English with a facing-page modern English translation. It includes a comprehensive introduction, annotations of key words and ideas, reproduction of the four manuscript illustrations, a literary sourcebook, and lists of biblical sources, significant liturgical dates, and the concatenation words. Literary and biblical sources for the poem are provided as appendices.

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 2008-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393334155

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One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that " helps] liberate ?Gawain ?from academia" (?Sunday Telegraph?).