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Piers Plowman with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo by William Langland; Terence Tiller (Translator); J. R. R. Tolkien (Translator, Editor); Christopher Tolkien (Editor, Translator)
Category: Classics
The magnificent heritage of English poetry before Chaucer is often neglected because of difficulties with unfamiliar dialect. These translations reveal what we are missing if we ignore it. Piers Plowman belongs to the tradition of medieval allegory, but without any of the stuffiness that label suggests. ...Show more
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo by J.R.R. Tolkien (Translator)
Category: Fantasy
This book presents a collection of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour. "Sir Gawain" and "The Green Knight and Pearl" are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. "Sir Gawain" is a romance, a fai ...Show more
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