Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Simon Armitage

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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Buch | Hardcover
160 Seiten
2007
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-22327-5 (ISBN)
16,20 inkl. MwSt
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Narrates the strange tale of a green knight who rudely interrupts the Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging one of their number to a wager. The virtuous Gawain accepts, and decapitates the intruder. The knight reclaims his head, orders Gawain to seek him out a year hence, and departs. Next Yuletide, Gawain dutifully sets forth.
"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" narrates in crystalline verse the strange tale of a green knight who rudely interrupts the Round Table festivities one Yuletide, casting a pall of unease over the company and challenging one of their number to a wager. The virtuous Gawain accepts, and decapitates the intruder with his own axe. Gushing blood, the knight reclaims his head, orders Gawain to seek him out a year hence, and departs. Next Yuletide Gawain dutifully sets forth. His quest for the Green Knight involves a winter journey, a seduction scene in a dream-like castle, a dire challenge answered, and a drama of enigmatic reward disguised as psychic undoing. Simon Armitage's new version is meticulously responsible to the tact and sophistication of the original - but responsible equally to its own persuasive claims to be read as an original new poem. It is as if, six hundred years apart, two northern poets set out on a journey through the same mesmeric landscapes - acoustic, physical and metaphorical - in the course of which the Gawain poet has finally found his true and long-awaited translator.

Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire in 1963. He is a prize-winning poet and works as a freelance writer, broadcaster and playwright. Previous titles include Kid, Book of Matches, The Dead Sea Poems, CloudCuckooLand, Killing Time and The Universal Home Doctor.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 4.1.2007
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 137 x 206 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Lyrik / Gedichte
Literatur Zweisprachige Ausgaben Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10 0-571-22327-3 / 0571223273
ISBN-13 978-0-571-22327-5 / 9780571223275
Zustand Neuware
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