Sir Gawain & the Green Knight is a classic Arthurian tale of
enchantment, adventure and romance. This splendid new translation -
by one of the world's leading poets - has already been acclaimed in
America. The original poem and W.S. Merwin's modern version are
comparable in stature and imaginative power to another medieval
epic, Beowulf, in Seamus Heaney's rendering. All Camelot is merry
with Christmas revelry when an enormous green-skinned knight with
brilliant green clothes rides into King Arthur's court. This giant
throws down a sinister challenge: he will endure a blow of the axe
to his neck without offering any resistance, but whoever delivers
the fatal blade must promise to take the same in a year and a day.
When the young Gawain beheads him, the Green Knight grabs hold of
his severed head and makes off on horseback. The poem follows
Gawain's adventures thereafter - shockingly brutal hunts, an almost
impossible seduction, and terrifyingly powerful adversaries - as he
gallantly struggles to honour his promise. Capturing the pace,
impact and richly alliterative language of the original Middle
English text - presented on facing pages - Merwin brings a new
immediacy to a spellbinding, timeless narrative written many
centuries ago by a master poet whose identity has been lost to
time. Modern and Middle English parallel text edition.
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