The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron'sThe Poems of the Pearl Manuscripthas been the key edition of the fourPearlpoems for over thirty years. With the changing needs of today's university student in mind,The Poems of the Pearl Manuscriptis presented in a fully updated and comprehensively revised version fit for the twenty-first century. Including a new introduction providing historical, literary, and cultural contexts for the poems, as well as a revised and updated bibliography, the fully revised Fifth Edition significantly revises and updates the explanatory notes, as well as makes minor changes to the text and glossary themselves. In addition, the authors have provided for the first time a complete prose translation of the four poemsPearl, Cleanness, Patience,andSir Gawain and the Green Knightincluded on a CD-ROM at the back of the book for students to use as a working tool. This timely revision ensures the continued quality and consummate translation that students and scholars have come to expect from the Andrew-Waldron edition.

Malcolm Andrew is professor of English language and literature at Queen’s University Belfast. Ronald Waldron is reader emeritus in English language and medieval literature at Kings College, University of London.