Pearl (poem)

Pearl is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the "Pearl poet" or "Gawain poet", also appears, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, and Cleanness and may have composed St. Erkenwald.

References

Editions

• William Vantuono, ed. The Pearl poems : an omnibus edition (New York: Garland Pub., 1984) ISBN 0824054504 (v. 1) ISBN 0824054512 (v. 2) Text in both Middle English and Modern English
• Malcolm Andrew and Ronald Waldron. The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript (Berkeley: University of California Press. Fourth ed. 2002) ISBN 0859895149.

Translations

• J. R. R. Tolkien, Trans. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo. (New York: Ballantine Books, 1975; repr. 1988) ISBN 0345277600.

Commentary and criticism

• George Doherty Bond The Pearl poem : an introduction and interpretation. (Lewiston, N.Y., USA : E. Mellen Press, 1991) ISBN 0889463093