Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
256
Utgivningsdatum
2021-04-29
Förlag
HarperCollins
Översättare
J R R Tolkien
Originalspråk
English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
Medarbetare
Tolkien, Christopher (ed.)
Dimensioner
198 x 129 x 20 mm
Vikt
230 g
ISBN
9780008433932

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

With Pearl and Sir Orfeo

Häftad,  Engelska, 2021-04-29
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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 Tolkiens 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 Tolkiens. The three translations represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals, and are uniquely accompanied with the complete text of Tolkiens acclaimed 1953 W.P. Ker Memorial Lecture that he delivered on Sir Gawain.
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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. Tolkiens version makes it come triumphantly alive, a moving and consoling elegy. Birmingham Post

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J.R.R.Tolkien (1892-1973) was a distinguished academic, though he is best known for writing The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, plus other stories and essays. His books have been translated into over 30 languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.