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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation Book

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : Paperback : WW Norton & Co : 9780393334159 : 0393334155 : 29 Jan 2009 : "Compulsively readable. ... Simon Armitage has given us an energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited version.""-Edward Hirsch, New York Times Book Review"Read More

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    "Compulsively readable. ... Simon Armitage has given us an energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited version."—Edward Hirsch, New York Times Book Review, front-page review Already a classic of modern translation, this fresh, vibrant work by dynamic British poet Simon Armitage updates the late fourteenth-century poem for a new generation. The story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in its depiction of Arthurian landscapes, dreamlike castles, and violent winter journeys, demands a peerless storyteller, and, "like the Gawain poet [himself], Armitage is some storyteller" (The Guardian). The work is an unparalleled masterpiece of alliteration and rhyme, and "[Armitage's] version inventively recreates the original's gnarled, hypnotic music ... but also has a free-flowing, colloquial twang that allows the poem to partake of the energies of contemporary speech" (Financial Times). 2 illustrations

  • 0393334155
  • 9780393334159
  • S Armitage
  • 29 January 2009
  • W. W. Norton & Co.
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 208
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