The twelfth-century French poet Chretien de Troyes is a major
figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the
Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England
as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of
capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking
audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his
poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of
medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of
Chretien's major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly
captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French
original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is
ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In
addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of
the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it
evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant
medieval past.
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