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Format:
Paperback
160 pp.
129 mm x 196 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199540167

Publication date:
October 2008

Imprint: OUP UK

Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

Edited by Helen Cooper
translated by Keith Harrison

Series : Oxford World's Classics

Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, with its intricate plot of enchantment and betrayal is probably the most skilfully told story in the whole of the English Arthurian cycle. Originating from the north-west midlands of England, it is based on two separate and very ancient Celtic motifs of the Beheading and the Exchange of Winnings, brought together by the anonymous 14th century poet. His telling comprehends a great variety of moods and modes - from the stark realism of the hunt-scenes to the delicious and dangerous bedroom encounters between Lady Bercilak and Gawain, from moments of pure lyric beauty when he evokes the English countryside in all its seasons, to authorial asides that are full of irony and puckish humour. This new verse translation uses a modern alliterative pattern which subtly echoes the music of the original at the same time as it strives for fidelity.

Readership : Courses in medieval and Middle English literature; the History of English Literature; Arthurian Literature; Narrative and Narratology.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
The poet
The romance background
The poem
The poetics of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Translator's Note
Select Bibliography
Chronology
Explanatory Notes

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Australian born-poet and translator Keith Harrison taught for 30 years at Carleton College, Minnesota. He has published many books of poetry and translation including Points in a Journey (Macmillan), The Basho Poems (Minneapolis) and A Burning of Applewood (Northfield, Black Willow). Helen Cooper is Professor of English Language and Literature, and Tutorial Fellow at University College, Oxford. She is the editor of Malory's Le Morte Darthur in Oxford World's Classics.

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