I don't know why, but I was very surprised about how good this turned out to be. The story is a poem set in the Arthurian world and written by an anonymous author in the 14th century. The story is very tight and well developed. The poetry is alliterative, which I thought might have sounded like a...
This was one of our books for Brit Lit and I'm so glad I was introduced to it. Sir Gawain is an interesting character that really adds to the King Arthur universe. It was originally written in Middle English so modern readers are reading it in translation but this is a particularly good one. It's...
This was great! This my first time reading a novel-sized poem, and i just soaked it up! Truthfully, I don't hVe much to say: this was really fun and interesting to read, I really want to read more things like it, it felt awesome reading a medieval story that as WRITTEN in medieval times, I read the ...
One of the best of the 'classic' Arthurian tales. Gawain is presented a bit differently here from many of the other ones. Usually he's a bit of a braggart and kind of a jerk, especially to women, but here he is presented as the perfect exemplar of courtoisie. He's also a bit young and still untried,...
I adore this. I have to admit to cheating slightly, in that it was in translation and not in the original middle English, but I think that's allowed. Poetry of this vintage is very different to that we're used to - there's nothing even resembling the usual iambic pentameter, and the end of the lines...
Great translation. I expected the language to be very complicated but it was fluid except for a few old-time words here and there. Reading about a chaste and righteous god-fearing knight was refreshing, compared to the usual lust driven knights I've come across other times before. I also loved the I...
While I'm not able to comment on other translations with any expertise, I found this translation to be excellent. The story still carries all the power with some moving verse (not too mention, of course, the plot line). This will be a translation I return to again and again as the beauty of the lang...
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