Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Subtitle: a close verse translation
By: translated by Larry D. Benson with a foreword and middle English text edited by Daniel Donoghue
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Medieval European studies -- v. 13
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Morgantown
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9781933202891; 9781935978107
Subjects: Knights and knighthood; Arthurian romances; Gawain (Legendary character); Romances; Poetry
Work titles: Gawain and the Grene Knight. English & English (Middle English)
Description: "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late fourteenth-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. In this poem, Sir Gawain accepts a challenge from a mysterious green warrior. In a struggle to uphold his oath along this quest, Gawain demonstrates chivalry, loyalty, and honor. This new verse translation of the most popular English romance of the fourteenth century to survive to the present offers students an accessible way of approaching the literature of medieval England without losing the flavor of the original writing. The language of Sir Gawain presents considerable problems to present-day readers as it is written in the West Midlands dialect before English became standardized. With a foreword by Daniel Donoghue, the close verse translation includes facing pages of the original fourteenth-century text and its modern translation."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxvi-xxviii).

Includes both the modern English and the Middle English text.