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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation) by [translated by] Simon Armitage is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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"Compulsively readable. ... Simon Armitage has given us an energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited version."—Edward Hirsch, New York Times Book Review One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf ?, ?Sir Gawain ? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that "[helps] liberate ?Gawain ?from academia" ( ?Sunday Telegraph ?).
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- Author
- [translated by] Simon Armitage
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393334159
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Poetry
- Rating
- 3.68 / 5 (497 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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