Chaucer is the greatest poet in the language at a sort of poetry of statement Marlowe achieved when he wrote, “The air is cold and sleep is sweetest now.” It’s an effect that in world literature we ...
An MIT professor discovered that the Pearl Manuscript from the 1300s has more to it than just four unconnected medieval poems. Professor Arthur Bahr found that along with the tale “Sir Gawain and the ...
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Decoding a medieval mystery manuscript
Two years ago, MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed to page through the Pearl-Manuscript, a singular bound ...
A programme weaving together two voices of grief, one from 600 years ago and one of the present day in Gerry McCann, in a reflection on loss and consolation. Alongside this in-depth interview given by ...
The Indigo Press has bagged Pearl, the debut novel by Siân Hughes, inspired by the medieval poem of the same name. Susie Nicklin, publisher, acquired world rights in all languages from Peter Buckman ...
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