04303cam a2200649 4500 521381369 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780393068863 0393068862 B007HXKZ8A Amazon a70f039e-500e-4af9-a920-21ebecf9cf51 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2310893 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Armitage, Simon. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation) [Libby]. W. W. Norton & Company, 2008. Epic poetry. medieval romance. King Arthur. Camelot. English poetry. Arthurian legend. English literature. British Literature . knights of the round table. Medieval literature. medieval poetry. middle english. queen guinevere. english folklore. poetry in translation. british folk tales. Welsh folklore. british myths. English Folk Tales. british legends. legend of king arthur. english legends. Medieval English Literature. chivalric romance. english myths. king arthurs court. legend of camelot. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 324kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 321kB. Fiction. Mythology. Poetry. HTML:<p><strong>The classic story that inspired the film starring Dev Patel and Alicia Vikander</strong></p> <p><strong>"A medieval romance...but also an outlandish ghost story, a gripping morality tale and a weird thriller.... I couldn't put down Simon Armitage's compulsively readable...energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited version." — Edward Hirsch, New York Times Book Review</strong></p> <p>One of the founding stories of English literature, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight narrates the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse who rudely interrupts Camelot's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, casting a pall of unease over the company and challenging one of their number to a wager. The virtuous Gawain accepts and decapitates the intruder with his own axe. Gushing blood, the knight reclaims his head, orders Gawain to seek him out a year hence, and departs. The following Yuletide, Gawain dutifully sets forth. His quest for the Green Knight involves a winter journey, a seduction scene in a dreamlike castle, a dire challenge answered—and a drama of enigmatic reward disguised as psychic undoing.</p> <p>Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400, composed by an anonymous master, this Arthurian epic was rediscovered only two hundred years ago and published for the first time in 1839. Following in the tradition of Ted Hughes, Marie Borroff, and J.R.R. Tolkien, Simon Armitage—one of England's leading poets—has produced an inventive translation that resounds with both clarity and spirit. His work, presented here with facing original text and a note by Harvard scholar James Simpson, is meticulously responsible to the sophistication of the original but succeeds equally in its ambition to be read as a totally new poem. It is as if two poets, six hundred years apart, set out on a journey through the same mesmerizing landscapes—acoustic, physical, and metaphorical—to share in and double the pleasure of this enchanting classic.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:30:24. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a70f039e-500e-4af9-a920-21ebecf9cf51&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a70f039e-500e-4af9-a920-21ebecf9cf51&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a70f039e-500e-4af9-a920-21ebecf9cf51&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)