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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Patience; Pearl

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This volume gathers modern English translations of three Middle English poems from the late medieval period. The first is the well-known tale of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's court who accepts a strange challenge from a mysterious green stranger. Alongside it sit Pearl, a poem of grief and longing, and Patience, a retelling of a story from the Bible.

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Together the three poems offer a window into the courtly and religious imagination of medieval England, presented in language that is easier for today's readers to follow than the original.

Genre
fantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of thismythologymythologyMore like thisLess of thismyths and folkloremyths and folkloreMore like thisLess of this
Themes
ArthurianArthurianMore like thisLess of this
Setting
medievalmedievalMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 208 pages
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poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

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