DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

The Alliterative Morte Arthure

A New Verse Translation

Valerie Krishna author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University Press of America

Published:17th Apr '83

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

The Alliterative Morte Arthure cover

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.

...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
...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
...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 *

ISBN: 9780819130365

Dimensions: 215mm x 138mm x 11mm

Weight: 195g

114 pages