Sir Gawain and the Green Knight/Pearl/Sir Orfeo
Language: English
1100-1500 1100-1500 - Modernized versions Arthurian romances Books Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12) Classics Criticism English English (Middle) English (Middle) - England - West Midlands English poetry English poetry - Middle English Fantasy Fantasy - General Fiction Gawain (Legendary character) General Historical Irish Knights and knighthood Literary Literary Criticism Literature - Classics Manuscripts Medieval Middle English Modernized versions Orpheus (Greek mythology) Pearl Science Fiction Science Fiction - General Scottish Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Orfeo Welsh poetry
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Published: Dec 31, 1974
Description:
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A collection of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines religious and social values.
Pearl is apparently an elegy on the death of a child, a poem pervaded with a sense of great personal loss: but, like Gawain it is also a sophisticated and moving debate on much less tangible matters.
Sir Orfeo is a slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition. It was a special favourite of Tolkien’s.
The three translations represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals.