Pearl

Jane Draycott's translation of Pearl reissued as a Carcanet ClassicA Poetry Book Society Recommended TranslationIn a dream landscape radiant with jewels, a father sees his lost daughter on the far bank of a river: "e;my pearl, my girl."e; 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. "e;This is,"e; Bernard O'Donoghue says in his introduction, "e;an event of great significance and excitement,"e; an encounter between medieval tradition and an acclaimed modern poet.