Pearl by Jane Beal

Pearl by Jane Beal

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.

Beal, Jane: - DR. JANE BEAL is a poet and academic. Jane was born, raised, and educated in northern California, where she received her PhD from UC Davis in English literature. She now teaches at the University of La Verne in southern California. Along with poetry, Jane writes fiction, creative nonfiction, literary criticism, and music. She is also a certified midwife. In addition to Song of the Selkie, Jane is the author of many other poetry collections, including Sanctuary, Rising: Poems for America, and Transfiguration: A Midwife's Birth Poems. She has also done several recording projects, Songs from the Secret Life, Love-Song, and, with her brother Andrew Beal, The Jazz Bird. Visit Jane at janebeal.wordpress.com.

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ISBN 13	9781554814589
ISBN 10	1554814588
Title	Pearl
Author	Jane Beal
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Broadview Press Ltd
Year published	2020-05-04
Number of pages	224
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