Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
（Penguin classics）
Penguin, 1972, c1964
Rev. ed
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
The unknown fourteenth-century author (a contemporary of Chaucer) has imbued his work with the heroic atmosphere of a saga, with the spirit of French romance and with a Christian consciousness. It is a poem in which the virtues of a knight, Sir Gawain, triumphant in almost insuperable ordeals, are celebrated to the glory of the House of Arthur. The impact made on the reader is both magical and human, full of drama and descriptive beauty.
Table of Contents
- "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight": fit I
- fit II
- fit III
- fit IV. "The Common Enemy of Man" (an essay on the Green Knight)
- Gawain's "Eternal Jewel" (an essay on the moral nature of Gawain)
- the poem as a play (performed at Newcastle, Christmas 1971
- the manuscript
- theories about the poet
- the pentangle of its significance
- notes on Arthurian matters
- extracts from the original poem.
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