Author:
Cargill Oscar,Schlauch Margaret
Abstract
The modern reader of The Pearl, like the poet himself, would fain call the little maid of the vision by her own name, for this, he feels, wouId supply the key to the whole poem. The manifold allegory of The Pearl is designed, after all, to enhance its central figure, as are the multiple colors against which her little person is thrown into relief. We propose in this article, not only to call the maiden by her name, but also to suggest a name for the author of this masterly elegy and of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Publisher
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
Cited by
2 articles.
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1. Gawain
-Poet;The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain;2017-08-03
2. Enshrining Form: Pearl as Inscriptional Object and Devotional Event;The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary;2008