Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Close Verse Translation - Paperback

by Larry D. Benson (Author), Daniel Donoghue (Foreword by)

With a foreword by Daniel Donoghue, the close verse translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight includes facing pages of the original fourteenth-century text and its modern translation.

Author Biography

Larry Benson is Emeritus Professor of English at Harvard University. The editor of the Riverside edition of Chaucer's works, he is also the author of Contradiction: From Beowulf to Chaucer; King Arthur's Death: The Middle English Alliterative; Morte Arthure and Stanzai Morte Arthur; Mallory's Morte D' Arthur; and The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature.

Daniel Donoghue is the John P. Marquand Professor of English, Harvard University.