Download or read book The Pearl an English Vision-Poem of the Fourteenth Century written by Marian Mead and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Pearl an English Vision-Poem of the Fourteenth Century: Done Into Modern Verse The vision, that literary form so dear to mediaeval writers, is commonly a very conventional setting. As, at a later period, a certain kind of o'er-vaulting poetic ambition would embody itself in a quantum of sentimental episodes, and a goodly number of battles, and be called an epic, so equally as a matter of course did the romantic or didactic fancy of this age feel the need of clothing itself in the pageantry of the dream. Usually such poetry presents classical figures or personified abstractions, Love, Reason, and the like, appropriately clad, and wandering about, probably, in delightful gardens, often for no particular purpose, apparently, save the edification of chance dreamers. The Romaunt of the Rose is of course the great model of this type; and the three chief English poets contemporary with the unknown author of The Pearl, Chaucer, Gower, and Langland, employed the vision-form as a convenient vehicle of their varying inspirations. Chaucer, indeed, as he came into the fullness of his powers, threw off the machinery of the dream. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."