Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation)
by:
Unknown (author)
Marie Borroff (author)
In translation from the West Midland dialect (sorry, prose was best I could find.)
In translation from the West Midland dialect (sorry, prose was best I could find.)
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393097542 (0393097544)
Publish date: September 1st 1967
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Pages no: 62
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Read For School,
Historical Fiction,
Medieval,
Poetry,
Mythology,
Arthurian
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 ...
Read this for uni and remember loving it.
I have the Tolkien translation. Would like to give this one a spin sometime.
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