Poems of the Pearl Manuscript in Modern English Prose Translation:: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies) - Hardcover

M. Andrew|R. Waldron

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1905816022 ISBN 13: 9781905816026

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2008

Synopsis

For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldrons The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems (the best-known of which is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) for 30 years. A comprehensively revised edition was published in 2007 to ensure the continued dominance on medieval courses of the Andrew/Waldron edition.Now, with the changing needs of todays student in mind, the editors have produced for the first time a complete prose translation of the four poems.    The new prose translations of the poems are based faithfully on Andrew and Waldrons new edition of The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript.    By using prose as opposed to verse the authors have ensured that the translations remain as close and accurate to the original as possible.    The prose translations are intended as a means of enhancing the understanding of these four superb but linguistically difficult poems, to help readers get to grips with the original texts.    Andrew and Waldrons translations can also be used as a means of checking the accuracy of students own rendition of the originals. 

About this title

About the Author:

Malcolm Andrew was previously Professor of English Language and Literature at Queen's University Belfast. Ronald Waldron was previously a lecturer and Emeritus Reader in English Language and Medieval Literature at King's College, University of London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1905816022
• ISBN 13: 9781905816026
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Malcolm Andrew, Ronald Waldron