The Fayre Formez of the Pearl Poet (Medieval Texts and - download pdf or read online

By Sandra Pierson Prior

ISBN-10: 0870134604

ISBN-13: 9780870134609

This booklet differs from such a lot past reports of the Pearl poet by means of treating all of his works as a complete. Prior’s goal is to spot the underlying poetics of this significant physique of English poetry. Drawing on either the visible imagery of medieval paintings (the research contains 18 full-page illustrations) and the verbal imagery of the Bible and different literary resources, earlier indicates how the poet’s "fayre formez" are the results of a coherent and self-conscious view of the artist’s craft.

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