Pearl: An Edition With Verse Translation - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0268038112 ISBN 13 : 9780268038113

Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 1995

Synopsis

The anonymous author of the poem Pearl is rated with Langland and Chaucer as one of the greatest Middle English poets. And, while a number of editions of this poem have been published, including E. V. Gordon's 1953 edition and Marie Borroff's 1977 verse translation, no edition until now has included a verse translation, Middle English text, and commentary in one volume. William Vantuono's edition of Pearl is certain to become a classroom standard because it contains for the first time a Middle English text with a facing-page Modern English verse translation as well as extensive scholarly apparatus.

Pearl is the first of four poems in a manuscript dated around 1400 A.D. The other three poems in this manuscript are Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. According to Vantuono's introduction, it is conceivable that Pearl was written for a nobleman, perhaps the poet's patron, who had lost a young daughter. However, many unanswered questions remain about the circumstances surrounding the poet and his writing of Pearl: Was he a layman or a priest? Is Pearl primarily elegy or allegory? Was the pearl-maiden his daughter, and if she was, can that fact be reconciled with the possibility that the poet was a clergyman?

This volume contains an extensive commentary covering all matters from minute textual problems to the various debates about the poem's theme and genre. Appendices discuss versification, dialect and language, and sources and analogues; two bibliographies list over 500 items through the early 1990s; and the book concludes with a full glossary. Pearl: An Edition with Verse Translation will appeal to scholars confronted with the tasks of studying and teaching medieval literature to students in college and university classrooms. It is a book designed for specialists and non-specialists, students, and general readers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

William Vantuono is an independent scholar who has retired from teaching. He has taught courses in English at various colleges in New Jersey, including Monmouth College. After receiving his Ph.D. in English Literature from New York University, he published widely in journals and composed the following three works: The Pearl Poems: An Omnibus Edition (Volume 1: Pearl and Cleanness; Volume 2: Patience and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight), The Pearl Poem in Middle and Modern English, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Dual-Language Version.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0268038112
• ISBN 13: 9780268038113
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 290
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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