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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : a close verse translation / translated by Larry D. Benson with a foreword and middle English text edited by Daniel Donoghue.
- Title
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : a close verse translation / translated by Larry D. Benson with a foreword and middle English text edited by Daniel Donoghue.
- Publication
- Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2012.
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- Additional Authors
- Benson, Larry Dean, 1929-
- Description
- xxviii, 187 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late fourteenth-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. In this poem, Sir Gawain accepts a challenge from a mysterious green warrior. In a struggle to uphold his oath along this quest, Gawain demonstrates chivalry, loyalty, and honor. This new verse translation of the most popular English romance of the fourteenth century to survive to the present offers students an accessible way of approaching the literature of medieval England without losing the flavor of the original writing. The language of Sir Gawain presents considerable problems to present-day readers as it is written in the West Midlands dialect before English became standardized. With a foreword by Daniel Donoghue, the close verse translation includes facing pages of the original fourteenth-century text and its modern translation."--Publisher's website.
- Series Statement
- Medieval European studies ; v. 13
- Uniform Title
- Gawain and the Grene Knight. English & English (Middle English)
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Medieval European studies v. 13.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Poetry
- poetry.
- Romances
- Arthurian romances
- Poésie.
- Cycles d'Arthur.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. xxvi-xxviii).
- Language (note)
- Includes both the modern English and the Middle English text.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Select Bibliography -- A Note on the Middle English Original Text -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
- ISBN
- 9781933202891 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781935978107 (electronic)
- 1933202890 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1935978101 (electronic)
- LCCN
- ^^2011018426
- OCLC
- 725827681
- SCSB-12228426
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library