Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Marie Borroff (1923–2019) was Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. Her verse translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was first published in 1967; it appeared together with her translations of Patience, Cleanness, Pearl, and St. Erkenwald in The Gawain Poet: Complete Works (2011). She was the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Stylistic and Metrical Study and of Traditions and Renewals: Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Beyond (1962, 2003). Laura L. Howes is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of Chaucer’s Gardens and the Language of Convention (1997) as well as several essays on Chaucer’s poetry, Pearl, The Book of Margery Kempe, and other Middle English works. She is also the editor of Place, Space, and Landscape in Medieval Narrative (2007). Marie Borroff (1923–2019) was Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. Her verse translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was first published in 1967; it appeared together with her translations of Patience, Cleanness, Pearl, and St. Erkenwald in The Gawain Poet: Complete Works (2011). She was the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Stylistic and Metrical Study and of Traditions and Renewals: Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Beyond (1962, 2003).

Introduction
The Metrical Forms
Translator's Note
The Translated Text of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Contexts
1. Sir Gawain in Middle English
2. The Green Knight Enters, lines 130-50
3. Sir Gawain's Shield, lines 619-39
4. The Gift of the Green Girdle, lines 1846-69
5. Two Old French Gavain Romances
6. The Knight of the Sword
7. The Mule without a Bridle
8. From the Alliterative Morte Arthure
9. Feast at Christmas
Criticism
1. Alain Renoir • Descriptive Technique in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2. Marie Borroff • [The Challenge Episode: A Stylistic Interpretation]
3. J. A. Burrow • [Recognition and Confession at the Green Chapel]
4. A. Kent Hieatt • Sir Gawain: Pentangle, Luf-Lace, Numerical Structure
5. W. A. Davenport • [The Hero and His Adventure]
6. Ralph Hanna III • Unlocking What's Locked: Gawain's Green Girdle
7. Lynn Staley Johnson • [Regenerative Time in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]
8. Jonathan Nicholls • [The Testing of Courtesy at Camelot and Hautdesert]
9. Geraldine Heng • Feminine Knots and the Other Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
10. Leo Carruthers • The Duke of Clarence and the Earls of March: Garter Knights and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Chronology
Selected Bibliography