{"product_id":"9781631491528","title":"Pearl: A New Verse Translation","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2017 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the acclaimed translator of \u003cem\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/em\u003e, a spellbinding new translation of this classic allegory of grief and consolation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One of our most ingenious interpreters of Middle English, Oxford Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage is celebrated for his “compulsively readable” translations (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e). A perfect complement to his historic translation of \u003cem\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl\u003c\/em\u003e reanimates another beloved Medieval English masterpiece thought to be by the same anonymous author and housed in the same original fourteenth-century manuscript. Honoring the rhythms and alliterative music of the original, Armitage’s virtuosic translation describes a man mourning the loss of his Pearl—something that has “slipped away.” What follows is a tense, fascinating, and tender dialogue weaving through the throes of grief toward divine redemption. Intricate and endlessly connected, Armitage’s lyrical translation is a circular and perfected whole, much like the pearl itself.","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136280346864,"sku":"9781631491528","price":9.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781631491528_p0.jpg?v=1763672117","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781631491528","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}