Complete Works of the Pearl Poet - Softcover

Finch, Casey; Andrew, Malcolm; Peterson, Clifford; Waldron, Ronald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520078713 ISBN 13: 9780520078710

Publisher: University of California Press, 1996

Synopsis

The Complete Works of the Pearl Poet: Complete Works of the Pearl Poet This volume presents the entire oeuvre of the "Pearl" poet with both the original Middle English works and complete verse translations. Anapestic tetrameters are used in the translations, achieving the rhythmic regularity the poems would have displayed when performed to music. Full description

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From the Back Cover:

"Finch's translations will add much to the pleasure and value of teaching and learning late medieval English history."--Robert Brentano, author of "Two Churches

"Casey Finch has found an idiom in which these poems can speak Modern English, and in doing so can convey the most elusive and complex effects of the originals. . . . He has conveyed the vitality of these poems in a verse that is as assured, gracious, blunt, urgent, plangent, rich, and perpetually surprising as that of the unknown poet or poets who made them. These brilliant poems have at last found a craftsman who understands the secrets of their intricate luminosity, a faithful steward of a distinctive verbal treasure of the language. In this translation these poems shine as brightly and clearly as they did when newly made, pearls without peer in English."--Anne Middleton, University of California, Berkeley

Synopsis:

This volume presents the entire oeuvre of the "Pearl" poet with both the original Middle English works and complete verse translations. Anapestic tetrameters are used in the translations, achieving the rhythmic regularity the poems would have displayed when performed to music.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0520078713
• ISBN 13: 9780520078710
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 490