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Pearl resists identification by author, date, occasion, or place of composition; still it is almost unanimously hailed as one of the masterpieces of our literature, so skilled is its author, so eloquent its language. It is a story, according to Sarah Stanbury, -of crossing-over, the stepping out from the ordinary life into a parallel universe where things operate by different natural laws: down the rabbit hole, through the wardrobe or looking glass, across the ocean to be shipwrecked on Prospero's island, or more recently, across a bridge to the island of Willow Springs in Gloria Naylor's...

This is an examination of the descriptive art found in four medieval poems generally accepted as being the work of a single author: "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", "Pearl", "Purity" and "Patience". It focuses on the poet's powers of physical description.