The Fayre Formez of the Pearl Poet

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The Fayre Formez of the Pearl Poet is written by Sandra Pierson Prior and published by MSU Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0870139452 (ISBN 10) and 9780870139451 (ISBN 13).

This book differs from most previous studies of the Pearl poet by treating all of his works as a whole. Prior’s purpose is to identify the underlying poetics of this major body of English poetry. Drawing on both the visual imagery of medieval art (the study includes 18 full-page illustrations) and the verbal imagery of the Bible and other literary sources, Prior shows how the poet’s "fayre formez" are the result of a coherent and self-conscious view of the artist’s craft.