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Pearl (2e)Jane DraycottForeword by![]() 10% off all versions
Categories: 14th Century, British, Medieval, Old English / Anglo Saxon, Translation, Women
Imprint: Carcanet Classics Edition: 2nd Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback 2e (64 pages) (Pub. Sep 2018) 9781784106591 £9.99 £8.99 eBook (EPUB) 2e Needs ADE! (Pub. Sep 2018) 9781784106607 £7.99 £7.19 eBook (Kindle) 2e (Pub. Sep 2018) 9781784106614 £7.99 £7.19 Audiobook (Audible) 2e 1 h 1 m (Pub. Sep 2018) 9781784109295 £14.99 £13.49 eBook (EPUB) 1e Needs ADE! (Pub. Sep 2018) 9781847779397 £9.95 £8.96 eBook (Kindle) 1e (Pub. Sep 2018) 9781847779403 £9.95 £8.96 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have, or are prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
Jane Draycott's translation of Pearl reissued as a Carcanet Classic A Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation In a dream landscape radiant with jewels, a father sees his lost daughter on the far bank of a river: ‘my pearl, my girl’. One of the great treasures of the British Library, the fourteenth-century poem Pearl is a work of poetic brilliance; its account of loss and consolation has retained its force across six centuries. Jane Draycott in her new translation remakes the imaginative intensity of the original. This is, Bernard O’Donoghue says in his introduction, ‘an event of great significance and excitement’, an encounter between medieval tradition and an acclaimed modern poet.
'A host of subtle and spellbinding effects, testament to Dryacott's skill as a poet as well as her grasp of grief's physcological realities'
Theophilus Kewk, The North 'The language is marvellously modulated yet stirringly wild. Draycott has carried over into our tamer, tired world a strong, strange sense of how original, gorgeous and natural this old poem can be.' David Morley, Poetry Review 'Draycott's version is compellingly human.' Lachlan Mackinnon, Times Literary Supplement Praise for Jane Draycott 'Draycott uses the language of dreams to make the quotidian illusionary, like a vapour captured in lexicon. Sleeplessness haunts the collection... Homeliness is pushed, just, over to Freud's unhomely conclusions. The dream world, enticing and enlightening as he might have it to be, proves no more accommodating than our own.' Lucy Cheseldine, STAND 'Her searching curiosity and wonderful assurance make her an impeccable and central poetic intelligence.' Penelope Shuttle, Manhattan Review 'I've waited some time to read something this intelligent, this sensuous and this crystalline. In fact The Night Tree is the finest collection I've read for ages.' Guardian |
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