Sir Gawain And The Green Knight

J.R.R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon Edited Norman Davis

ISBN 10: 0198114869 / ISBN 13: 9780198114864

Published by Oxford University Press 1968-12, Oxford, 1968

Good- Trade Paperback 232 pp. 1989 by J.R.R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon Second Edition Later Printing. Edited By Norman Davis Introduction, Notes Middle English with introduction comparing beheading game to Celtic Irish examples Edited Norman Davis. Edited linguistics by J. R. R. Tolkien and E.V. Gordon. This has a great deal of pencil annotations by a scholarly reader up to page 69.The majority of the pages clear. Tight binding. This is not J.R,R. Tolkien's later modern English edition. NOT a library copy. This has Prof. Tolkien's classic original Middle English text. Norman Davis introductory Arthurian material not found in the modern edition. See our Three Geese in Flight Scan of the cover of Morgan Le Fay trying to tempt Gawain and a sample of worst annotations. A solid tight working copy. Seller Inventory # 8534428593119423

Synopsis:

Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400, composed by an anonymous master, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was rediscovered only two hundred years ago, and published for the first time in 1839. One of the earliest great stories of English literature after Beowulf, the poem narrates in crystalline verse the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, 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 responsive to the tact and sophistication of the original — but equally succeeds in its powerfully persuasive ambition 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.

About the Author: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (1892-1973) is best known as the author of The Hobbit and its sequel The Lord of the Rings. He was a professor of Anglo-Saxon language at Oxford from 1925 to 1945, and of English language and literature, also at Oxford, from 1945 to 1959.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
Publisher: Oxford University Press 1968-12, Oxford
Publication Date: 1968
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good-
Edition: 2nd Edition