The Fayre Formez of the Pearl Poet
by Sandra Pierson Prior
Michigan State University Press, 1996
Cloth: 978-0-87013-460-9 | eISBN: 978-1-62895-213-1 (ePub NK) | eISBN: 978-1-62896-213-0 (Kindle) | eISBN: 978-0-87013-945-1 (PDF)
Library of Congress Classification PR1972.G353P74 1996
Dewey Decimal Classification 821.1
ABOUT THIS BOOK
This book differs from most previous studies of the Pearl poet by treating all of his works as a whole. Prior’s purpose is to identify the underlying poetics of this major body of English poetry. Drawing on both the visual imagery of medieval art (the study includes 18 full-page illustrations) and the verbal imagery of the Bible and other literary sources, Prior shows how the poet’s "fayre formez" are the result of a coherent and self-conscious view of the artist’s craft.
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