Pearl
2016
Book
Simon Armitage's acclaimed version of 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' garnered front-page reviews across two continents and confirmed his reputation as a leading translator. This is an entrancing allegorical tale of grief and lost love, as the narrator is led on a Dantean journey through sorrow to redemption by his vanished beloved, Pearl. Retaining all the alliterative music of the original, a Medieval English poem thought to be by the same anonymous author responsible for 'Gawain', 'Pearl' is here brought to vivid and intricate life.
Main title:
Pearl / translated by Simon Armitage.
Author:
Armitage, Simon, 1963-, translator
Work:
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2016.
Collation:
xviii, 103 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Middle English.
ISBN:
9780571302956 (hbk)
Dewey class:
821.1
Language:
EnglishEnglish, Middle (1100-1500)
Added title:
BRN:
2301809