2 edition of voice of the Gawain-poet found in the catalog.
voice of the Gawain-poet
Lynn Staley
Published
1984
by University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. in Madison, Wis
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Written in
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
| Statement | Lynn Staley Johnson.. -- |
| The Physical Object | |
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| Pagination | xix, 276 p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 276 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL19355526M |
In An Introduction to the Gawain Poet, John Bowers surveys an expanded selection of the works of Chaucer's anonymous contemporary, considering Sir Gawain and the Green Knight alongside the poet's lesser known but no less brilliant works. In addition to his succinct introductions and plot summaries, Bowers skillfully details the cultural, historical, political, and religious contexts for these Pages: Written probably in the late s, The Book of Margery Kempe is one of the most astonishing documents of late medieval English life. Its protagonist, who represents herself as its ultmate author, was not simply a woman but a woman thoroughly rooted in the world. 1 She evinces the manners and the tastes neither of the court nor of the nunnery, but the piety, the culture, the profit-oriented.
This book is an introduction to the Gawain-poet's four surviving works: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, Pearl, and purpose is to make all four poems accessible to students by setting the poet and his works in their relevant historical and cultural context, and, above all, by developing some lines of critical argument that, I think, bring out the best in the Gawain-poet. The Gawain-poet does, as Bunting observes, use allegory (including metaphor and symbolism), but he actually uses it to ‘[draw] readers into active response to the story’ (Anderson). Part of the richness of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight lies in .
Johnson, Lynn. The Voice of the Gawain-Poet. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, Jones, Edward Trostle. "The Sound of Laughter in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Mediaeval Studies 31 (): Kendrick, Laura. Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the Canterbury Tales. Berkeley: U of California P, The Game of Love: Troubadour. The adventures and challenges of Sir Gawain, King Arthur’s nephew and a knight at the Round Table, including his duel with the mysterious Green Knight, are among the oldest and best known of Arthurian stories. Here the distinguished author and poet John Gardner has captured the humor, elegance, and richness of the original Middle English in flowing modern verse translations of this literary.
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The Voice of the Gawain-Poet book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers/5. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for The Voice of the Gawain Poet by Lynn S. Johnson (, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay.
Free shipping for many products. Genre/Form: Criticism, interpretation, etc Arthurian romances: Additional Physical Format: Online version: Staley, Lynn, Voice of the Gawain-poet. Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.
The voice of the Gawain-poet by Lynn Staley Johnson,University of Wisconsin Press edition, in EnglishCited by: 4. The Gawain Poet also gives us a bonus in this romance: a unique poetic stanza form called the "bob and wheel." It's five short lines that rhyme according to an ABABA, pattern.
And the first of those lines is way short—only two syllables). As in: fun, fun. Chew on This. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight isn't all idealized courtly romance.
Biography of the Poet Extremely little is known about the origins of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The poem survived the Middle Ages in a single manuscript that was preserved because it fell into the hands of a book collector, Sir Robert Cotton, whose collections were later donated to the British Museum.
Pearl (Middle English: Perle) is a late 14th-century Middle English poem that is considered one of the most important surviving Middle English works. With elements of medieval allegory and dream vision genre, the poem is written in a North-West Midlands variety of Middle English and highly—though not consistently—alliterative; there is a complex system of stanza linking and other stylistic.
The essays collected here on the Gawain-Poet offer stimulating introductions to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and Patience, providing both information and original analysis.
Topics include theories of authorship; the historical and social background to the poems, with individual sections on particularly important features within them; gender roles in the poems; the 5/5(1).
THE GAWAIN POET (-), translated by William Allan NEILSON ( - ) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an. Simon Armitage's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is published by Faber, price £ Ian McKellen's reading will be broadcast on Radio 4, Decem.
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, PEARL, and SIR ORFEO are masterpieces of a remote and exotic age--the age of chivalry and wizards, knights and holy quests. Yet it is only in the unique artistry and imagination of J.R.R.
Tolken that the language, romance, and power of these great stories comes to life for modern readers, in this masterful and compelling new translation.4/5(41). Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Simon Armitage pp, Faber, £ A huge knight, green from top to toe, rides into Camelot at Christmas.
On the whole, this is a useful book. The editors, who have both published widely on the Gawain poet, provide support to the reader in the form of elaborate lexical and interpretative notes which are based on up-to-date scholarship.
It should be noted, however, that the language of the four texts is challenging for the vast majority of readers/5(10). The Gawain-Poet book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. A study of the four great Middle English poems, Sir Gawain and the Green K /5(4).
a contemporary of the Gawain poet. The life of a Cistercian clerk, forester, soldier and castle constable - a contemporary of the Gawain poet. The poet of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, had a detailed knowledge of, hunting, courtly behaviour, castles and armour. He was a religious man and believed to have links to Cistercian abbeys.
Complete Works of the Gawain Poet: Modern English Version by John Gardner and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at General Information: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur’s Round Table.
In the tale, Sir Gawain accepts a challenge from a mysterious warrior who is completely green, from his clothes and hair to his beard and skin. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a medieval ;poem written in the fourteenth century by an unknown British poet.
He wrote his poem in Middle English. The poem is brilliantly interpreted into modern English by Simon Armitage. It is a mirror into the world of chivalry in the time of the Middle s: Now, in Simon Armitage, the poem has found its perfect modern translator. Armitage's retelling of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight captures all of the magic and wonderful storytelling of the original while also revitalising it with his own popular, funny and contemporary voice.
Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire in The Gawain Poet was clearly aware of a tradition of set chivalric virtues, but he manipulates expectations such as when Gawain, in attempting to strike the Green Knight in place of the king, finds a conflict between the need to be loyal to his king and to.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a medieval ;poem written in the fourteenth century by an unknown British poet. He wrote his poem in Middle English. The poem is brilliantly interpreted into modern English by Simon Armitage.
It is a mirror into the world of chivalry in the time of the Middle Ages/5().LibriVox recording of Pearl, by The Gawain Poet. Read by Jordan. Written in the 14th century by the Gawain poet, 'Pearl' is an elegiac poem reflecting on the death of .The Gawain-poet's claim of a specifically English quasi-history contrasts this tale with the better-known French Arthurian romances of writers such as Chrètien de Troyes; it may be an appeal to patriotic English feeling of the period, during which the Hundred Years' War .
