Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

With Pearl and Sir Orfeo

Buch | Softcover

178 Seiten

1996
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-261-10259-0 (ISBN)

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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.

J.R.R.Tolkien (1892-1973) was a distinguished academic, though he is best known for writing The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, plus other stories and essays. His books have been translated into over 30 languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.1.1996
Übersetzer	J. R. R. Tolkien
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	140 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10	0-261-10259-1 / 0261102591
ISBN-13	978-0-261-10259-0 / 9780261102590
Zustand	Neuware