Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Marie Borroff

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Marie Borroff

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Marie Borroff

This long-awaited Norton Critical Edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight includes Marie Borroffs celebrated, newly revised verse translation with supporting materials not to be found in any other single volume.
Marie Borroff (1923–2019) was Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. Her verse translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was first published in 1967; it appeared together with her translations of Patience, Cleanness, Pearl, and St. Erkenwald in The Gawain Poet: Complete Works (2011). She was the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Stylistic and Metrical Study and of Traditions and Renewals: Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Beyond (1962, 2003). Laura L. Howes is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of Chaucer’s Gardens and the Language of Convention (1997) as well as several essays on Chaucer’s poetry, Pearl, The Book of Margery Kempe, and other Middle English works. She is also the editor of Place, Space, and Landscape in Medieval Narrative (2007). Marie Borroff (1923–2019) was Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. Her verse translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was first published in 1967; it appeared together with her translations of Patience, Cleanness, Pearl, and St. Erkenwald in The Gawain Poet: Complete Works (2011). She was the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Stylistic and Metrical Study and of Traditions and Renewals: Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Beyond (1962, 2003).
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ISBN 13 9780393930252
ISBN 10 0393930254
Title Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Author Marie Borroff
Series Norton Critical Editions
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Year published 2010-01-12
Number of pages 272
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.