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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : a close verse translation / translated by Larry D. Benson with a foreword and middle English text edited by Daniel Donoghue.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Medieval European studies ; 13.
- Medieval European studies ; 13
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gawain (Legendary character)--Romances.
- Gawain.
- Gawain (Legendary character).
- Knights and knighthood--Poetry.
- Knights and knighthood.
- Arthurian romances.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (218 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Medieval European Studies Series Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword: By Daniel Donoghue; The Poem and the Poet; The Verse Form; Genre and Sources; Narrative Technique; Themes; Select Bibliography; Verse translations; Critical Studies; Editions; A Note on the Middle English Original Text; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; I; II; III; IV; About Larry D. Benson; About Daniel Donoghue; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. xxvi-xxviii).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Contains:
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. English (Benson)
- ISBN:
- 1-935978-63-2
- 1-935978-10-1
- OCLC:
- 806322670
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb32017 hdl
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