num_pages: 230
description: 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 the accented tetrameters of the originals, thus achieving the rhythmic regularity the poems would have displayed when performed to music, as they surely were meant to be. Finch's translations are printed facing the best modern editions of the poems, those of Malcolm Andrew and Ronald Waldron and of Clifford Peterson.
language: English
title: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain
titlecomplete: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain (Early English Text Society Original Series, 162)
characters: The Green Knight, Sir Gawain, Morgan le Fay, Sir Bertilak de Haute Desert, The Dreamer, The Pearl-Maiden, King Arthur
genres: Literature, Arthurian, Classics, School, Mythology, Medieval, Fiction, Poetry, Fantasy, British Literature
ratings_count: 5560
places: Camelot
publisher: Early English Text Society