Excerpt from The Pearl: An Anonymous English Poem of the Fourteenth Century
The Pearl, whatever its faults, is full of beauty in form and Spirit. At first reading, the course of the poem is likely to seem in terrupted with dull digressions, out of pro portion to the rest. But, if it is viewed as a whole, its various parts sink into a right and helpful relation to each other. First, there sounds prophetically, but faintly, the note of peace and triumph which later brings the poem to its final cadence. Then begins the prelude, wherein is shown the agonizing conflict of grief and doubt that raged in the poet's heart after the loss of his Pearl. Through the deep Sleep that at length comes to his exhausted body and soul the poem issues into the first of its three great phases.
The poet is almost dazed with the bright ness of the strange land in which he awakes.
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