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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo

J.R.R. Tolkien

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines religious and social values.

Pearl is apparently an elegy on the death of a child, a poem pervaded with a sense of great personal loss: but, like Gawain it is also a sophisticated and moving debate on much less tangible matters.

Sir Orfeo is a slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition. It was a special favourite of Tolkien's. The three translations represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 158 pages

Publication:: 1995

Publisher:: HarperCollins Publishers

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Language:: eng

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo

J.R.R. Tolkien

3.98/5 (10659 ratings)

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines religious and social values.

Pearl is apparently an elegy on the death of a child, a poem pervaded with a sense of great personal loss: but, like Gawain it is also a sophisticated and moving debate on much less tangible matters.

Sir Orfeo is a slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition. It was a special favourite of Tolkien's. The three translations represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 158 pages

Publication:: 1995

Publisher:: HarperCollins Publishers

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:

ISBN13:

kindle Asin:

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