Title:
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SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT
A NEW VERSE TRANSLATION |
By: |
Simon Armitage |
Format: |
Paperback |
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£11.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0393334155 |
ISBN 13: |
9780393334159 |
Publisher: |
WW NORTON & CO |
Pub. date: |
29 January, 2009 |
Pages: |
208 |
Description: |
Following in the tradition of Seamus Heaney's reworking of "Beowulf," Armitage, one of England's leading poets, has produced a virtuoso new translation of the 600-year-old Arthurian story with both clarity and verve. |
Synopsis: |
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?). |
Illustrations: |
frontispiece |
Publication: |
US |
Imprint: |
WW Norton & Co |
Returns: |
Returnable |