Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

With Pearl and Sir Orfeo

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eBook - ePub

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

With Pearl and Sir Orfeo

About this book

A collection of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines religious and social values.

Pearl is apparently an elegy on the death of a child, a poem pervaded with a sense of great personal loss: but, like Gawain it is also a sophisticated and moving debate on much less tangible matters.

Sir Orfeo is a slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition. It was a special favourite of Tolkien's.

The three translations represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals.

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Information

Publisher
HarperCollins
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780008393625
eBook ISBN
9780007375929
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism in Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction
  7. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  8. W.P. Ker Memorial Lecture on Sir Gawain
  9. Notes
  10. Pearl
  11. Sir Orfeo
  12. Glossary
  13. Appendix on Verse-forms
  14. Gawain’s Leave-taking
  15. Keep Reading …
  16. About the Authors
  17. Works by J.R.R. Tolkien
  18. About the Publisher

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