{"product_id":"pearl-william-vantuono-9780268038106","title":"Pearl: An Edition with Verse Translation","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe anonymous author of the poem \u003cem\u003ePearl\u003c\/em\u003e is rated with Langland and Chaucer as one of the greatest Middle English poets. And, while a number of editions of this poem have been published, including E. V. Gordon's 1953 edition and Marie Borroff's 1977 verse translation, no edition until now has included a verse translation, Middle English text, and commentary in one volume. William Vantuono's edition of \u003cem\u003ePearl\u003c\/em\u003e is certain to become a classroom standard because it contains for the first time a Middle English text with a facing-page Modern English verse translation as well as extensive scholarly apparatus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePearl\u003c\/em\u003e is the first of four poems in a manuscript dated around 1400 A.D. The other three poems in this manuscript are \u003cem\u003eCleanness\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePatience\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/em\u003e. According to Vantuono's introduction, it is conceivable that \u003cem\u003ePearl\u003c\/em\u003e was written for a nobleman, perhaps the poet's patron, who had lost a young daughter. However, many unanswered questions remain about the circumstances surrounding the poet and his writing of \u003cem\u003ePearl\u003c\/em\u003e: Was he a layman or a priest? Is \u003cem\u003ePearl\u003c\/em\u003e primarily elegy or allegory? Was the pearl-maiden his daughter, and if she was, can that fact be reconciled with the possibility that the poet was a clergyman?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume contains an extensive commentary covering all matters from minute textual problems to the various debates about the poem's theme and genre. Appendices discuss versification, dialect and language, and sources and analogues; two bibliographies list over 500 items through the early 1990s; and the book concludes with a full glossary. \u003cem\u003ePearl: An Edition with Verse Translation\u003c\/em\u003e will appeal to scholars confronted with the tasks of studying and teaching medieval literature to students in college and university classrooms. It is a book designed for specialists and non-specialists, students, and general readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Vantuono\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0268038104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268038106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/21\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.23h x 6.34w x 0.96d","brand":"William Vantuono","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086454141183,"sku":"9780268038106","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_79634059-370e-44a5-b3b3-063a8e5fed3a.jpg?v=1769094768","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pearl-william-vantuono-9780268038106","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}