The Alliterative Morte Arthure: A New Verse Translation

by Valerie Krishna

Overview

One of the finest narrative poems of the Middle Ages translated in its entirety by a recognized authority on the poem. This volume represents an important chapter in the evolution of the Arthurian legend. It is marked as an epic poem by its celebration of battle and conquest and its unsentimental depiction of combat and death.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780819130365
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/17/1983
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	114
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

Valerie Krishna is Professor of English at City College in New York. She is the author of The Alliterative Morte Arthure: A Critical Edition (1976), the poem in the original Middle English, with introduction, critical and textual notes, and glossary.

Editorial Reviews

...the translation should nonetheless be welcome to those college students of all levels and those general readers who have a sophisticated interest in Arthurian romance.

Choice Reviews - Russell Hope Robbins

...the translation should nonetheless be welcome to those college students of all levels and those general readers who have a sophisticated interest in Arthurian romance.--Russell Hope Robbins, SUNY Albany "CHOICE "

...lively, readable, accurate, and altogether an excellent piece of work, which gives the reader a good flavor of the original poem.--Russell Hope Robbins, SUNY Albany

From the Publisher

...the translation should nonetheless be welcome to those college students of all levels and those general readers who have a sophisticated interest in Arthurian romance.
— Russell Hope Robbins, SUNY Albany

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