Pearl - Turville-Petre, Thorlac
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An edition of the fourteenth-century poem Pearl, concerning a father's grief for the death of his infant daughter, whom he then meets in a dream. She attempts to bring him to an understanding of the place of death in the divine plan. It is one of four works by the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

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An edition of the fourteenth-century poem Pearl, concerning a father's grief for the death of his infant daughter, whom he then meets in a dream. She attempts to bring him to an understanding of the place of death in the divine plan. It is one of four works by the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Autorenporträt
Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Arts, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom) Thorlac Turville-Petre is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nottingham. His many authored works include Reading Middle English Literature (Blackwell, 2007); (with Ralph Hanna) The Wollaton Medieval Manuscripts: Texts, Owners and Readers (Boydell, 2010); Poems from BL MS Harley 913 'The Kildare Manuscript' EETS OS 345 (OUP, 2015); Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative Poetry (LUP, 2018); (with J. A. Burrow) A Book of Middle English, 4th edn. (Blackwell, 2021).