Pearl
2017
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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
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2017.
Collation:
xviii, 103 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Middle English.This translation originally published: 2016.
Awards:
Pen Award for Poetry in Translation 2017
ISBN:
9780571302970 (pbk)
Dewey class:
821.1821.1 ARM
Language:
EnglishEnglish, Middle (1100-1500)
BRN:
2492796