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The Complete Works of the Pearl Poet
Finch
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Description for The Complete Works of the Pearl Poet
Paperback. This volume presents the entire oeuvre of the "Pearl" poet with both the original Middle English works and complete verse translations. Anapestic tetrameters are used in the translations, achieving the rhythmic regularity the poems would have displayed when performed to music. Editor(s): Andrew, Malcolm; Waldron, Ronald; Peterson, Clifford. Translator(s): Finch, Casey. Num Pages: 488 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 230 x 30. Weight in Grams: 682.
This edition presents, for the first time, the entire oeuvre of the Pearl poet with both the original Middle English works and complete verse translations. Poet and scholar Casey Finch uses anapestic tetrameters (and iambic tetrameter for Pearl) in his translations rather than the accented tetrameters of the originals, thus achieving the rhythmic regularity the poems would have displayed when performed to music, as they surely were meant to be. Finch's translations are printed facing the best modern editions of the poems, those of Malcolm Andrew and Ronald Waldron and of Clifford Peterson.
This edition presents, for the first time, the entire oeuvre of the Pearl poet with both the original Middle English works and complete verse translations. Poet and scholar Casey Finch uses anapestic tetrameters (and iambic tetrameter for Pearl) in his translations rather than the accented tetrameters of the originals, thus achieving the rhythmic regularity the poems would have displayed when performed to music, as they surely were meant to be. Finch's translations are printed facing the best modern editions of the poems, those of Malcolm Andrew and Ronald Waldron and of Clifford Peterson.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520078710
SKU
V9780520078710
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Ref
99-1
About Finch
The late Casey Finch taught in the Department of English at New York University. He was the author of two books of poetry, The Forbidden Book (1981) and Harming Others (1992), and several scholarly articles on literary topics.
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