Pearl (poem)
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pearl-poem-204-1217008
title:
Pearl (poem)
text:
Pearl is a late 14th-century Middle English poem that is considered one of the most important surviving Middle English works. With elements of medieval allegory and from the dream vision genre, the poem is written in a North-West Midlands variety of Middle English and is highly—though not consistently—alliterative; there is, among other stylistic features, a complex system of stanza-linking. A father, mourning the loss of his perle (pearl), falls asleep in a garden; in his dream, he encounters t
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14th-century English poem
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_(poem)
date created:
2004-01-05T06:54:46Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T19:28:28Z
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