{"product_id":"five-middle-english-arthurian-romances-paperback","title":"Five Middle English Arthurian Romances - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eValerie Krishna\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in this collection will give the reader an appreciation of both the distinctiveness and the variety of the medieval English Arthurian tradition and highlight some of this important chapter in Arthurian legend literature. The Middle English stories are different in style and structure to the later French romances, composed in poetic forms that derive from native English traditions. \u003cem\u003eThe Stanzaic Morte Arthur\u003c\/em\u003e is the earliest version of the Lancelot-Guinevere story in English; \u003cem\u003eThe Awyntas off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyn\u003c\/em\u003e is a serious moral poem while the story of the Avowing is a tail-rhyme romance. \u003cem\u003eThe Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell\u003c\/em\u003e is a strongly folkloric variation of Chaucer's \u003cem\u003eWife of Bath's Tale\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSyre Gawene and the Carle of Carlyle\u003c\/em\u003e is an alternative version of the testing of Gawain. Originally published in 1991, the translator gives an introduction to each poem as well as a general introduction about the development of the Arthurian poetic tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 254\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 26, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42127499886727,"sku":"9781138974357","price":106.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/302ae54dc8c236e580eab1d1120b1173.webp?v=1732588981","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/five-middle-english-arthurian-romances-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}