Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Patience / Pearl: Verse Translations / Edition 1

by Marie Borroff

Overview

Verse translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, and Pearl by Marie Borroff.

"These translations by Marie Borroff not only are one of the great achievements of the translator's craft but are works of art in their own right."—Lee Patterson, Frederick W. Hilles Professor of English and Chairman of Medieval Studies, Yale University.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393976588
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	12/21/2000
Edition description:	1 ED
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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).