Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation)

Type

Book

Authors

Simon Armitage

ISBN 10

0393334155

ISBN 13

9780393334159

Tags

Criticism & Theory, Arthurian Romance, Medieval, Gothic & Romantic, Poetry, British & Irish, Epic

Description

"Compulsively readable. ... Simon Armitage has given us an energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited version."―Edward Hirsch, New York Times Book Review One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that "[helps] liberate ?Gawain ?from academia" (?Sunday Telegraph?). 2 illustrations - from Amzon

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