Pearl (Coulton Translation)

Pearl (Coulton translation)

by The Gawain Poet

Pearl is a late 14th-century Middle English poem by an unknown author, thought to be the same as the author known as the Gawain Poet, who also wrote the poems Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, and Cleanness. It is a dream vision poem in which the author, overcome with grief at the loss of his young daughter, falls asleep and has a vision of his daughter as a beautiful pearl in the New Jerusalem. The pearl explains to him that she is now in heaven and that he should not grieve for her, as she is now happy and at peace.

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The Gawain Poet

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The "Gawain Poet", or less commonly the "Pearl Poet", is the name given to the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an alliterative poem written in 14th-century Middle English. Its author appear...

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