Poems Of The Pearl Manuscript
Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Edited by M. Andrew and R. Waldron

Mixed media product - Paperback with DVD, 383 pages	£18.00
Published: 2007
ISBN: 9780859897914 Format: 234mm x 156mm

Mixed media product - Hardback with DVD, 383 pages	£75.00
Published: 2007
ISBN: 9780859897907 Format: 234mm x 156mm

Subjects: Medieval Studies

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For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron’s The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems (the best-known of which is Gawain and the Green Knight) for 30 years. Now, with the changing needs of today’s student in mind, the editors have undertaken the most comprehensive revision of the book since its inception.

The revised edition includes a new introduction providing historical, literary and cultural contexts for the poems. It also incorporates a revised and updated bibliography, minor changes to the text and glossary, and significant revision and updating of the explanatory notes. In addition the authors have provided for the first time a complete prose translation of the four poems for students to use as a working tool. This is included on CD-ROM at the back of the book.

‘Malcolm Andrew and Ronald Waldron have fully revised their standard edition of the four poems of the Pearl-poet. The translation, along with the updated and extended critical and explanatory material, will render the new edition an extremely valuable resource for students at all levels.’(C.J.S., Medium Aevum Vol LXXVII, 2008)

‘I recommend to readers this revision of an edition that several generations of students and teachers have preceded me in endorsing. In a book of manageable size, the editors have succeeded in reconciling reliable scholarship with modern accessibility, and in balancing attention to individual poems with encouragement to explore the Gawain-corpus as a whole. Their edition provides a setting that can only deepen twenty-first-century appreciation for these luminous Middle English poems.’ (Parergon – s, volume 26.1 (2009))Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies)

‘The fifth edition, overall, is a tremendous achievement, and secures Andrew and Waldon as the authoritative critical text and student edition of these poems.’ (The Year’s Work in English Studies, vol. 88, no. 1, 2009)