Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : Patience ; and Pearl : verse translations

Author(s)

• Borroff, Marie

Bibliographic Information

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : Patience ; and Pearl : verse translations

Marie Borroff

W.W. Norton, c2001

Other Title

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ; Patience ; Pearl

Uniform Title

Gawain and the Grene Knight

Patience (Middle English poem)

Pearl (Middle English poem)

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193)

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In this text, Marie Borroff's translations of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "Pearl" are collected together with a new verse translation of "Patience", bringing together three of the four works by the anonymous "Pearl-Poet." A retelling of the biblical story of Jonah and the whale, "Patience" turns the Book of Jonah into a human comedy, though the poem also includes a number of serious passages that enlarge its meaning and reinforce its moral message. In "Patience", Jonah's sea journey, the storm that nearly wrecks his ship, his descent into the belly of the whale, his three days' sojourn there, and his adventures in and around Niniveh are all dramatized with brilliant realism.

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Details

• NCID: BA86477623
• ISBN:
  • 9780393976588
• LCCN: 00061616
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: enm
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 193 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR1972.G35
  • DC21 : 821/.1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Modernized versions
  • LCSH : Gawain (Legendary character) -- Romances