No longer someone's mother, she's still a woman, doing the usual chores. Now she's bending over melons, a fragrant pile in the grocery store, a laden basket. And there it is: gold, swollen to its ultimate paleness, a great globe, the skin so...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Pearl: A Textual Analysis The Pearl is the first poem in Cotton Nero A.x; it was first edited by Richard Morris in 1864. Although it occurs first in the Ms., it is very unlikely that it is earlier than the others,...

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The widow of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl has withdrawn a lawsuit seeking damages against al-Qaida, a dozen reputed terrorists and Pakistan's largest bank.In a letter Tuesday to the federal judge presiding over the case, lawyers for Mariane Pearl noted that Habib Bank Limited and the...

In the following excerpt, Spearing describes Pearl as an extended dramatic narrative in which the literal-minded dreamer interacts with the celestial maiden in a way that reveals the difference between earthly human relationships and spiritual relationships.

In the following essay, Wellek asserts that Pearl is a dream vision that uses allegory to present Pearl as the object of divine grace.

In the following essay, Stanbury describes the poem as an allegorical fiction and compares it to the pilgrimage-narrative genre of travel literature and to the tradition of medieval illustrated Apocalypses.