Pearl

<i>Pearl</i> is an entrancing allegorical tale of grief and lost love, as the narrator is led on a Dantean journey through sorrow to redemption by his vanished beloved. Retaining all the alliterative music of the original, a Middle English poem thought to be by the same anonymous author responsible for <i>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</i>, <i>Pearl </i>is here brought to vivid and intricate life in the care of one of the finest poets writing today. <i>Pearl</i> is an entrancing allegorical tale of grief and lost love, as the narrator is led on a Dantean journey through sorrow to redemption by his vanished beloved. Retaining all the alliterative music of the original, a Middle English poem thought to be by the same anonymous author responsible for <i>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</i>, <i>Pearl </i>is here brought to vivid and intricate life in the care of one of the finest poets writing today.