Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

This smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour. It features a beautifully decorated text and includes as a bonus the complete version of Tolkien's acclaimed lecture on Sir Gawain.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines religious and social values.
Pearl is apparently an elegy on the death of a child, a poem pervaded with a sense of great personal loss: but, like Gawain it is also a sophisticated and moving debate on much less tangible matters.
Sir Orfeo is a slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition. It was a special favourite of Tolkien's.
The three translations represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals, and are uniquely accompanied with the complete text of Tolkien's acclaimed 1953 W.P. Ker Memorial Lecture that he delivered on Sir Gawain.

Info autore

Translated by J. R. R. Tolkien, Edited by Christopher Tolkien

Riassunto

This smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour. It features a beautifully decorated text and includes as a bonus the complete version of Tolkien’s acclaimed lecture on Sir Gawain.

Relazione

'The introduction to Gawain is a little masterpiece.'
Times Higher Educational Supplement
'This magnificent Arthurian tale of love, sex, honour, social tact, personal integrity and folk-magic is one of the greatest and most approachable narrative poems in the language. Tolkien's version makes it come triumphantly alive, a moving and consoling elegy.'
Birmingham Post

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Christopher Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
• Con la collaborazione di: Christopher Tolkien (Editore), Tolkien Christopher (Editore), John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (Traduzione)
• Editore: Harper Collins Uk
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780008433932
• ISBN: 978-0-00-843393-2
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Poetry, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Romance / Historical / Medieval, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Classic and pre-20th century poetry, Fairy and Folk tales / Fairy tale retellings, Classic fiction: general and literary