David Staines is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, widely published scholar, and general editor of the New Canadian Library.

"Chretien is where the literary tradition of the Arthurian romance can be seen to begin. . . . His poems are the earliest we have that portray knights errant questing through dangerous forests to challenge unknown opponents and to learn the meaning of love. . . . Staines [also] provides the first, and only, English translation of "Guillaume d'Angeleterre" [and] it is very good to have it available."—Times Literary Supplement

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionErec and EnideCligesThe Knight of the CartThe Knight With the LionThe Story of the GrailAppendix: William of EnglandVariant Readings of the ManuscriptA Bibliography of Texts and Critical StudiesAn Index of Proper Names

David Staines is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, widely published scholar, and general editor of the New Canadian Library.

"Chretien is where the literary tradition of the Arthurian romance can be seen to begin. . . . His poems are the earliest we have that portray knights errant questing through dangerous forests to challenge unknown opponents and to learn the meaning of love. . . . Staines [also] provides the first, and only, English translation of "Guillaume d'Angeleterre" [and] it is very good to have it available."—Times Literary Supplement

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionErec and EnideCligesThe Knight of the CartThe Knight With the LionThe Story of the GrailAppendix: William of EnglandVariant Readings of the ManuscriptA Bibliography of Texts and Critical StudiesAn Index of Proper Names

David Staines is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, widely published scholar, and general editor of the New Canadian Library.

"Chretien is where the literary tradition of the Arthurian romance can be seen to begin. . . . His poems are the earliest we have that portray knights errant questing through dangerous forests to challenge unknown opponents and to learn the meaning of love. . . . Staines [also] provides the first, and only, English translation of "Guillaume d'Angeleterre" [and] it is very good to have it available."—Times Literary Supplement

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionErec and EnideCligesThe Knight of the CartThe Knight With the LionThe Story of the GrailAppendix: William of EnglandVariant Readings of the ManuscriptA Bibliography of Texts and Critical StudiesAn Index of Proper Names