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'Turville-Petre is a major scholar of the literature of the later Middle Ages, and his work on the literary and philological contexts of Middle English poetry… has had an enormous impact on the field. There can be no doubt that his reading of Pearl in this edition is attentive and thoughful, the product of decades of sustained scholarship, thought, and teaching.' David K. Coley, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 'Turville-Petre’s Pearl can indeed serve as the new go-to edition for serious study of the poem. Much of the pleasure and excitement of reading Pearl, for this reader at least, comes from stumbling over its hard words and unusual turns of phrase, turning for help to the experts and finding even more of its richness and strangeness in the process of that discovery.' Craig R. Davis, The Medieval Review

'Turville-Petre is a major scholar of the literature of the later Middle Ages, and his work on the literary and philological contexts of Middle English poetry… has had an enormous impact on the field. There can be no doubt that his reading of Pearl in this edition is attentive and thoughful, the product of decades of sustained scholarship, thought, and teaching.' David K. Coley, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 'Turville-Petre’s Pearl can indeed serve as the new go-to edition for serious study of the poem. Much of the pleasure and excitement of reading Pearl, for this reader at least, comes from stumbling over its hard words and unusual turns of phrase, turning for help to the experts and finding even more of its richness and strangeness in the process of that discovery.' Craig R. Davis, The Medieval Review ‘Quite simply, there is no better way to study Pearl than in this edition.’ Alastair Minnis, Medium Aevum ‘This edition and translation of Pearl is the latest book to emerge from this important scholar’s learning and philological acumen. … Ideally suited to introduce Pearl to readers who are new to it, and to give non-specialists who love poetry ready access to its Middle English. … That this edition also conveys Thorlac Turville-Petre’s long-considered, graceful thinking on the poem carries another valuable benefit.’ Yearbook of Langland Studies

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Thorlac Turville-Petre is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nottingham. His many authored works include Reading Middle English Literature (Blackwell, 2007); Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative Poetry (LUP, 2018); (with J. A. Burrow) A Book of Middle English, 4th edn. (Blackwell, 2021) and Pearl: A Critical Edition (LUP, 2021).

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