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The tale of Gawain

Author :  John Watson

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Country
Australia
Publisher
Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide, Australia
ISBN 9781761091285
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2022
Bib. Info 118 pages
Categories PR - English literature
Product Weight 140 gms.
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Gawain and the Green Knight is the celebrated poem from the time of Chaucer, written in the dialect then current in the north of England. Chaucer's language outlasted this dialect. The poem draws on rich Arthurian and folk traditions involving the Green Man and knightly virtue. It has been frequently translated but John Watson has chosen to devise a version running parallel to the original while avoiding direct translation. Here Gawain struggles afresh with the Green Knight's gruesome challenge and overcomes mysterious temptations in order to preserve the precept of Virtue as required at the Round Table.

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