Jane Draycott's translation of Pearl reissued as a Carcanet Classic. In the years since it was first published in 2011, Jane Draycott's translation of the medieval English poem Pearl has been recognised as a classic. David Morley declared in Poetry Review , "The language is marvellously modulated yet stirringly wild. Draycott has carried over into our tamer, tired world a strong, strange sense of how original, gorgeous and natural this old poem can be." In the Times Literary Supplement , Lachlan Mackinnin wrote, "Draycott's version is compellingly human." It is appropriate, given the delicacy of language and theme, that this should be the first major translation prepared by a woman. In a dream landscape radiant with jewels, a father sees his lost daughter on the far bank of a river: "my pearl, my girl." One of the great treasures of the British Library, the fourteenth-century poem Pearl , is a work of poetic brilliance.

Its account of loss and consolation retains its force across six centuries.