Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: (A New Verse Translation)
List Price: Our Price: $11.94 You Save: $14.01 (54%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $5.07 (click here) Category: Book See more book details and other editions Book Summary InformationTranslator: Simon ArmitageEdition: Hardcover Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 2007-10-17 ISBN: 0393060489 Number of pages: 208 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. Book Reviews of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: (A New Verse Translation)Book Review: A brilliant translation of a favorite medieval romance!I fell in love with this romance in college. I've read a few translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in poetry and verse, and Armitage's is, hands down, the best. A former classmate from NYU called to recommend the text, reading passages aloud to me over the phone. This year I used the book with high school seniors, who loved it. Armitage employs the alliterative verse and bob and wheel characteristic of this medieval romance (the "bob" is a two-syllable word or phrase that introduces the "wheel," a quatrain that picks up its rhyme scheme from the bob). We made frequent use of the facing pages in middle English. I couldn't help rhapsodizing, repeatedly, about the beauty of the translation in my classroom. If I could give it more than five stars, I would.
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