{"product_id":"sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-translation-9780393334159","title":"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Translation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Compulsively readable. ... Simon Armitage has given us an energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited version.\"-Edward Hirsch, New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Drives the force of the old poem through the green Armitrage fuse. Highly charged work.\" -- Seamus Heany, Nobel Prize-winning translator of Beowulf\u003cbr\u003e\"Simon Armitrage's luscious version of \u003cem\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/em\u003e continues the tradition of great poet-translators such as Edward FitzGerald, Arthur Waley, and Seamus Heaney. Like them, he has taken an artifact from a remote era and made it his own, while simultaneously restoring it to itself.\" -- John Ashbery\u003cbr\u003e\"Brilliantly orchestrated.... Armitrage has produced a brilliantly well-tuned modern score for one of the finest surviving examples of Middle English poetry.\" -- Poetry Review\u003cbr\u003e\"[Armitrage's] version inventively recreates the original's gnarled, hypnotic muscle, its vivid tableaux and landscapes, its weird, unsettling drama.\" -- Mark Ford - Financial Times\u003cbr\u003e\"A free and wonderfully offbeat version of this unusual masterpiece... fresh and startling, as though it had been written yesterday; it is rough-knuckled and yet it sings.... From start to finish, Mr. Armitrage has clearly had great fun; each of his words has been tasted with gusto.\" -- Eric Ormsby - New York Sun\u003cbr\u003e\"Full of make-believe and festivity, this wonderful narrative poem possesses a Mozartean lightness and wit. Luckily, several modern versions, particularly those by W.S. Merwin and Simon Armitrage, deftly replicate much of the feel and rhythm of the Middle English original.\" -- Michael Dirda - Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\"I enjoyed it greatly for its kick and music; its high spirits, its many memorable passages. I enjoyed it because, like the Gawain poet, Armitrage is some storyteller.\" -- Kevin Crossley-Holland - The Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\"Armitrage makes it utterly, even compulsively readable, and as fresh as it must have been in 1400.\" -- Brian Morton - Sunday Herald","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525141700951,"sku":"9780393334159","price":12.11,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393334159.jpg?v=1731859389","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-translation-9780393334159","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}