Pearl

by Thorlac Turville-Petre

Book Overview

Pearl is a moving elegy written in the late fourteenth century, in which a grief-stricken narrator struggles to come to terms with the death of his baby daughter. He meets her, now transformed into a beautiful young lady, in a dream, where she attempts to bring him to understand the place of death in the divine plan, and where he is granted a sight of the heavenly Jerusalem. Pearl is celebrated as a jewel among medieval poems, although...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1802078940
• ISBN13: 9781802078947
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 224 Pages