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More Notes on Pearl

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2021

Oliver Farrar Emerson
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Since the preparation of “Some Notes on the Pearl,” a new edition of the poem by Gollancz has appeared, issued in 1921 but too late for use in my former article. Besides, some new notes have been accumulating from further study of the poem, and another article seems warranted.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , December 1927 , pp. 807 - 831
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1927

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References

1 PMLA, XXXVII, 52 ff.

2 See Osgood's edition, Introd. p. xliii and note 1; Northup's able “Study of the Metrical Structure of the Pearl,” PMLA, XII 326 ff.; and my “Imperfect Lines in the Pearl” etc., Mod. Phil., XIX, 131 ff.

3 In Gollancz's first edition twenty-one lines were emended by such addition of an historical, inflectional, or analogical final e; viz, 17, 51, 68, 122, 225, 286, 312, 381, 486, 564, 586, 678, 683, 825, 999, 1000, 1004, 1036, 1046, 1076, 1133.

4 For convenience the following abbreviations will be used in referring to editions of the poem: M. = Morris; O., Osgood; G1, G2, Gollancz's two editions respectively; B., Bateson, Patience.

5 I note especially the recent Italian translation as La Perla (1926), by Professor Frederico Olivero of the University of Turin.

6 I shall regularly expand & as and, though the copyist wrote ande in 1212 and sometimes in the other poems.