num_pages: 224
description: This verse translation of Yvain; or, The Knight with the Lion brings to life a fast-paced yet remarkably subtle work often considered to be the masterpiece of the twelfth-century French writer Chrétien de Troyes. The creator of the Arthurian romance as a genre, Chrétien is revealed in this work as a witty, versatile writer who mastered both the soaring flight of emotion and the devastating aside and was as skillful a debater of the finer points of love as he was a describer of battles.
language: English
title: Yvain, or The Knight with the Lion
titlecomplete: Yvain, or The Knight with the Lion
characters: Owain mab Urien, Ywain
genres: Classics, France, Fantasy, Fiction, Arthurian, School, Romance, 12th Century, Poetry, Medieval
ratings_count: 3460
series: Arthurian Romances
publisher: University of Georgia Press