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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage

ISBN: 9780571223282
Release Date: 05 Mar 2009
Average rating: (read by 13 members)

Categories: Poetry texts & anthologies , Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -

Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400, composed by an anonymous master, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" was rediscovered only 200 years ago, and published for the first time in 1839. One of the earliest great stories of English literature, after "Beowulf", the poem narrates the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts the Round Table festivities one Yuletide, casting a pall of unease over the company and challenging one of their number to a wager. The virtuous Gawain accepts, and decapitates the intruder with his own axe. Gushing blood, the knight reclaims his head, orders Gawain to seek him out a year hence, and departs. Next Yuletide Gawain dutifully sets forth...His quest for the Green Knight involves a winter journey, a seduction scene in a dream-like castle, a dire challenge answered - and a drama of enigmatic reward disguised as psychic undoing.

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	catrin_eira Full Review
	Rated it 4 months ago

if your going to try and read sir gawain in its orriginal form, i reccomend that you read this in tandem or before to give you a clear view of what on earth is actually happening. reading the original is advised, but if you understand the idea then you...

	kristie13
	Rated it 10 months ago

The original knights in shining armor tale.

	kmattson
	Rated it 3 months ago

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