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A new volume of the works of the Gawain poet, destined to become the definitive edition for students and scholars.

Pearl, a dream vision, presents its poignant story of the education of a misguided Christian soul in metrically intricate and verbally ornate stanzas that add up to an overarching numerical design. Together with these two, Patience, Cleanness, and Saint Erkenwald make up the... Read Full Overview

This edition presents, for the first time, the entire oeuvre of the Pearl poet with both the original Middle English works and complete verse translations. Poet and scholar Casey Finch uses anapestic tetrameters (and iambic tetrameter for Pearl ) in his translations rather than... Read Full Overview

For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron's The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems for over thirty years.

With the changing needs of today's students in mind, the editors produced a complete prose translation... Read Full Overview

For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron's The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems (the best-known of which is Gawain and the Green Knight) for 30 years. Now, with the changing needs of today's student in mind, the editors... Read Full Overview

SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT is one of the most important alliterative poems of Medieval literature
Now a major film THE GREEN KNIGHT starring Dev Patel

This edition has been revised to take account of some of the more important textual and interpretative notes and articles published on the poems.

For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron's The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems for over thirty years.

With the changing needs of today's students in mind, the editors produced a complete prose translation... Read Full Overview

This edition presents, for the first time, the entire oeuvre of the Pearl poet with both the original Middle English works and complete verse translations. Poet and scholar Casey Finch uses anapestic tetrameters (and iambic tetrameter for Pearl ) in his translations rather than... Read Full Overview

This edition has been revised to take account of some of the more important textual and interpretative notes and articles published on the poems.