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47. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo transl by JRR Tolkien
The title piece was a joy to read as was the third piece ,Sir Orfeo, a story about a queen kidnapped by the faerie. The middle selection, the Pearl, was a much harder slog for me to get through. It concerned the ... I've settled on my copy from Mt TBR of Tolkien's translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight followed by Iris Murdoch's The Green Knight.
I won't be starting them till later in the month as I have a couple of other group read committments before then.
I'll be reading and appreciating ... ... the J. J. Anderson translation to the Cawley one that the touchstones grabbed OR the Tolkein one that pairs SGGK with Sir Orfeo
Marie de France Lais and Chretien de Troyes or if you are into the Parsival/Parsifal/Parzival Grail stories, the collected works of Wolfram von Eschenbac ... ... English; Chaucer is late enough and in the right dialect to be understandable to modern English readers with help, but Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, for example, can't be read without really knowing Middle English. But most Middle English works can't effectively be combined anyway, as ... I just noticed that Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight have the same book, an edition of the translation by JRR Tolkien as part of their work. The cover's not large enough for me to tell whether that particular edition includes Pearl and Si ... Diamonds Are Forever
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo
The 9 Holes of Jade: The Biography of a Hong Kong Call Girl
... Were Very Young
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Julius Caesar
The Merchant of Venice
Hamlet
Othello
Beowulf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Tale of Two Cities
MacBeth
ugh..wish I could remember the rest.. :(
... - it does not appear in all translations. But it's remarkable how some of the old poetry can appeal to kids (Beowulf, Sir Gawain, 1001 Arabian Nights (be careful of the translation) and Le Morte d'Arthur are also good bets), even without being rewritten into simplified contemporary ... ... thread on classics?
If one must talk about Tolkien on this thread, I'd think trashing his second rate translation of Sir Gawain ought to be enough.
... of smaller (say 8" x 5") works from the Middle-Ages, including maybe both Bedier's and Beroul's version of Tristan, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and others. But given the Epics collection, I doubt it will come for year and years, if at all.
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