Free Downloads The Complete Works Of The Pearl Poet
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.
Paperback: 488 pages
Publisher: University of California Press (April 6, 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0520078713
ISBN-13: 978-0520078710
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1 x 9 inches
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I have been reading this edition in the context of a university class. The notes on the text are extensive and helpful and the facing page translation makes for a quick and enjoyable read. However, for the purposes of truly studying these texts I would have appreciated having the middle english version glossed on the more obscure M.E. words to enable me to grapple with the original text and language a bit more. I am also partial to texts that annotate on the page rather than endnotes, as the constant flipping back and forth can become tedious, to say the least.Overall I was surprised how much I enjoyed these stories, especially Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The translation of that was especially enjoyable, so much so, that I read it aloud to my children (5 & 7) and they loved it too.
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