Pearl: A New Verse Translation

by E.V. Gordon, Unknown, Sara deFord

Book Overview

Simon Armitage, the acclaimed poet who brought Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to vivid life in "an energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited translation" (New York Times Book Review), turns his attention to another beloved medieval English masterpiece, the soulful Pearl. Believed to have been penned by the same author who wrote Sir Gawain and housed in the same original fourteenth-century manuscript, Pearl is here reanimated with Armitage's characteristic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871407183
• ISBN13: 9780871407184
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.4"