Pearl

Text and Translation
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-55481-458-9
Verlag: Broadview Press

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

The fourteenth-century Middle English poem Pearl is one of the best dream vision poems ever written, yet its Language (the North-west 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 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- A Note on the Text Pearl
- Appendix A: Literary Sourcebook – Key Passages
- Parable
- Parable of the Pearl of Great Price
- Parable of the Treasure in the Field
- Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard
- Descriptions of Pearls
- From Pliny, Natural History
- From Albert the Great, De animalibus
- From Marbod of Rennes, De lapidibus
- From Bartholomæus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum
- From The Peterborough Lapidary
- From Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries
- Life of Saint Margaret of Antioch (from the Legenda Aurea)
- The Spring of Narcissus (from The Romance of the Rose)
- The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice (from King Alfred's Version of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, trans. Walter John Sedgefield)
- Dante Meets Matilda and Beatrice in the Earthly Paradise (from Dante's Purgatorio XXIX-XXXIII, trans. A. S. Kline)
- Pygmalion and Galatea (from Ovid's Metamorphoses)
- The Phoenix of Arabia (from Ovid's Metamorphoses)
- Origen on the Song of Songs
- The New Jerusalem (Revelation 21)
- Appendix B: List of Biblical Source Passages
- Appendix C: List of Significant Liturgical Dates
- Appendix D: Chart of Concatenation Words
- Select Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Jane Beal is Associate Professor of English at the University of La Verne.