I'm sure to some people who happen upon my review it looks odd that I've given this poem four stars, especially once they hear my reasons. Overall, Sir Gawain is a quick read, and my lovely Norton Critical edition helped by explaining terminology otherwise. It is essentially the story of a knight,...
I have a hard copy of Simon Armitage's "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". Unfortunately, I haven't had time to read it, so when the CD of the audio book fell into my hands, I was over the moon. I really enjoy listening to Simon Armitage's voice and the idea of listening to him read his own transla...
The meter on this thing is pretty impressive: a strict alliterative pattern of two stresses, a pause, and two more stresses, with a five-line rhyming stanza (a short line followed by four with an ABAB scheme) at the end of each passage. It should be terribly constrictive, but the Gawain poet flows ...
Contains the greatest "OH FUCK" moment in medieval literature!Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - listed here as written by Unknown, though I believe it may have been penned by that prolific Greek author Anonymous - is a classic tale from Arthurian legend in which the code of honor attributed to chiva...
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