Pearl

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Simon Armitage’s acclaimed version of ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ garnered front-page reviews across two continents and confirmed his reputation as a leading translator. This is an entrancing allegorical tale of grief and lost love, as the narrator is led on a Dantean journey through sorrow to redemption by his vanished beloved, Pearl. Retaining all the alliterative music of the original, a Medieval English poem thought to be by the same anonymous author responsible for ‘Gawain’, ‘Pearl’ is here brought to vivid and intricate life.

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WINNER OF THE PEN AWARD FOR POETRY IN TRANSLATION

Pearl is an entrancing allegorical tale of grief and lost love, as the narrator is led on a Dantean journey through sorrow to redemption by his vanished beloved. Retaining all the alliterative music of the original, a Middle English poem thought to be by the same anonymous author responsible for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl is here brought to vivid and intricate life in the care of one of the finest poets writing today.

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Weight 155 g
Dimensions 19.8 × 13.1 × 1 cm
Author

Publisher

Faber & Faber
Imprint

Cover

Paperback
Pages

xviii, 103
Language

English
Edition
Dewey

821.1 (edition:23)
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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