In this new verse translation of one of the great works of French
literature, Dorothy Gilbert captures the vivacity, wit, and grace
of the first known Arthurian romance. "Erec and Enide" is the story
of the quest and coming of age of a young knight, an illustrious
member of Arthur's court, who must learn to balance the demands of
a masculine public lifeOCotests of courage, skill, adaptability,
and mature judgmentOCowith the equally urgent demands of the
private world of love and marriage. We see his wife, Enide, develop
as an exemplar of chivalry in the female, not as an Amazon, but as
a brave, resolute, and wise woman. Composed ca. 1170, "Erec and
Enide" masterfully combines elements of Celtic legend, classical
and ecclesiastical learning, and French medieval culture and
ideals.In choosing to write in rhymed octosyllabic
coupletsOCoChr(r)tien's prosodic patternOCoDorothy Gilbert has
tried to reproduce what so often gets lost in prose or free verse
translations: the precise and delicate meter; the rhyme, with its
rich possibilities for emphasis, nuance, puns and jokes; and the
mantic power implicit in proper names. The result will enable the
scholar who cannot read Old French, the student of literature, and
the general reader to gain a more sensitive and immediate
understanding of the form and spirit of Chr(r)tien's poetry, and to
appreciate the more Chr(r)tien's great contribution to European
literature."
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