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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?).
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Drives the force of the old poem through the green Armitrage fuse. Highly charged work.--Seamus Heany, Nobel Prize-winning translator of Beowulf
Brilliantly orchestrated.... Armitrage has produced a brilliantly well-tuned modern score for one of the finest surviving examples of Middle English poetry.
[Armitrage's] version inventively recreates the original's gnarled, hypnotic muscle, its vivid tableaux and landscapes, its weird, unsettling drama.--Mark Ford
A free and wonderfully offbeat version of this unusual masterpiece... fresh and startling, as though it had been written yesterday; it is rough-knuckled and yet it sings.... From start to finish, Mr. Armitrage has clearly had great fun; each of his words has been tasted with gusto.--Eric Ormsby
Full of make-believe and festivity, this wonderful narrative poem possesses a Mozartean lightness and wit. Luckily, several modern versions, particularly those by W.S. Merwin and Simon Armitrage, deftly replicate much of the feel and rhythm of the Middle English original.--Michael Dirda
I enjoyed it greatly for its kick and music; its high spirits, its many memorable passages. I enjoyed it because, like the Gawain poet, Armitrage is some storyteller.--Kevin Crossley-Holland
Armitrage makes it utterly, even compulsively readable, and as fresh as it must have been in 1400.--Brian Morton
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A fantastic revival of an arthurian classic from on of Britain's foremost contemporary poets.
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0393334155
- ISBN 13 9780393334159
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages208
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