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Pearl
David (Ed) Fuller
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Description for Pearl
hardcover. An English Medieval poem, a dream vision that is both a profoundly personal elegy for the dreamer's lost daughter and a subtle theological debate about the most difficult existential questions. Editor(s): Watts, Victor; Fuller, David; Saunders, Corinne; Raine, Kathleen. Num Pages: 50 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 157 x 9. Weight in Grams: 170.
"Pearl" is one of the greatest English Medieval poems, a dream vision that is both a profoundly personal elegy for the dreamer's lost daughter and a subtle theological debate about the most difficult existential questions. In this parallel text edition the original poem is printed opposite a modernised version which retains all the formal features of the original - its elaborate musical schemes of alliteration and rhyme, and its rich vocabulary. Words unfamiliar to the contemporary reader are glossed alongside the modernisation so that the poem can easily be read by anybody not familiar with its idiom. In her introduction ... Read more
"Pearl" is one of the greatest English Medieval poems, a dream vision that is both a profoundly personal elegy for the dreamer's lost daughter and a subtle theological debate about the most difficult existential questions. In this parallel text edition the original poem is printed opposite a modernised version which retains all the formal features of the original - its elaborate musical schemes of alliteration and rhyme, and its rich vocabulary. Words unfamiliar to the contemporary reader are glossed alongside the modernisation so that the poem can easily be read by anybody not familiar with its idiom. In her introduction ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
50
Condition
New
Number of Pages
50
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904634201
SKU
V9781904634201
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Ref
99-13
About David (Ed) Fuller
Victor Watts (1938-2002) was one of the country's leading authorities on English place-names, and a notable linguist. He taught Medieval Literature at Durham University, where he was also Master of Grey College. As honorary director of the English Place-Name Survey (from 1993), general editor of its survey volumes (from 1994), and editor of the Journal of the English Place-Name Society ... Read more
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