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The Tale of Gawain

The Tale of Gawain

Watson, John

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 176109128X
ISBN13: 9781761091285
Publisher: Ginninderra Press
Published: Jul 23 2021
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

Gawain and the Green Knight is the celebrated poem from the time of Chaucer, written in the dialect then current in the north of England. Chaucer's language outlasted this dialect. The poem draws on rich Arthurian and folk traditions involving the Green Man and knightly virtue. It has been frequently translated but John Watson has chosen to devise a version running parallel to the original while avoiding direct translation. Here Gawain struggles afresh with the Green Knight's gruesome challenge and overcomes mysterious temptations in order to preserve the precept of Virtue as required at the Round Table.

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