The Death of King Arthur by Simon Armitage
By the Poet Laureate The Alliterative Morte Arthure - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around 1400 - was part of a medieval Arthurian revival which produced such masterpieces as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Sir Thomas Malory's prose Morte D'Arthur.Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. A recipient of numerous prizes and awards, his collections of poetry include Seeing Stars (2010), The Unaccompanied (2017), Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic (2019), Magnetic Field (2020) and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007). He writes extensively for television and radio, and is the author of two novels and the non-fiction bestsellers All Points North (1998), Walking Home (2012) and Walking Away (2015). His theatre works include The Last Days of Troy, performed at Shakespeare's Globe in 2014. A Vertical Art (2021) brought together his vibrant and engaging lectures from his tenure as Professor of Poetry and the University of Oxford, and, in 2018, he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Simon Armitage is Poet Laureate.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571298419 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571298419 |
| Title | The Death of King Arthur |
| Author | Simon Armitage |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2022-03-03 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
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