Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Close Verse Translation

With a foreword by Daniel Donoghue, the close verse translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight includes facing pages of the original fourteenth-century text and its modern translation.

Author: Larry D. Benson
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 05/01/2012
Pages: 220
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781933202891
ISBN10: 1933202890
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Poetry | Ancient & Classical

About the Author

Larry Benson is Emeritus Professor of English at Harvard University. The editor of the Riverside edition of Chaucer's works, he is also the author of Contradiction: From Beowulf to Chaucer; King Arthur's Death: The Middle English Alliterative; Morte Arthure and Stanzai Morte Arthur; Mallory's Morte D' Arthur; and The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature.

Daniel Donoghue is the John P. Marquand Professor of English, Harvard University.