Name: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation)
ISBN: 9780393334159

Simon Armitage

A poetic translation of the classic Arthurian story is an edition in alliterative language and rhyme of the epic confrontation between a young Round Table hero and a green-clad stranger who compels him to meet his destiny at the Green Chapel. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation)

When the mysterious Green Knight arrives unbidden at the Round Table one Christmas, only Gawain is brave enough to take up his challenge . . . This story, first told in the 1400s, is one of the most enthralling, dramatic and beloved poems in the English tradition. Now, in Simon Armitage, the poem has found its perfect modern translator. Armitage's retelling of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight captures all of the magic and wonderful storytelling of the original while also revitalising it with his own popular, funny and contemporary voice.

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

“don’t be so shocked should the plot turn pear-shaped:

for men might be merry when addled with mead

but each year, short lived, is unlike the last

and rarely resolves in the style it arrived”

Melih Kurtulus

“don’t be so shocked should the plot turn pear-shaped:

for men might be merry when addled with mead

but each year, short lived, is unlike the last

and rarely resolves in the style it arrived”

Arianna M

I'd started reading other translations (the first couple pages) but none seemed entirely convincing. Then I opened this and it BLEW MY MIND. The way Armitage was able to maintain the allitterative properties of the original poetic diction is almost every line, while not straying from the original sense, is AMAZING. I truly love that this provides the original right next to the translation, too. All around a GEM.
And oh, yeah, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is definitely engrossing.

Infamous Millimetre

'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' narrates in crystalline verse the strange tale of a green knight 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.

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Gracie Marsden

Robert Hinchcliffe

Wesley Burton

Sophie Drew

Christmas gift edition of Armitage's hugely popular translation: with revised text, and color illustrations by Clive Hicks-Jenkins

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation)

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