{"product_id":"sir-gawain-and-greene-knight","title":"Sir Gawain And Greene Knight","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduct Description      \u003cbr\u003e\nA collection of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour.\u003cbr\u003e\nSir 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nPearl 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nSir Orfeo is a slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition. It was a special favourite of Tolkien’s.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe three translations represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals.\u003cbr\u003e\n      Review      \u003cbr\u003e\n‘The introduction to Gawain is a little masterpiece.’Times Higher Educational Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\n‘This magnificent Arthurian tale of love, sex, honour, social tact, personal integrity and folk-magic is one of the greatest and most approachable narrative poems in the language. Tolkien’s version makes it come triumphantly alive, a moving and consoling elegy.’Birmingham Post\u003cbr\u003e\n      From the Inside Flap      \u003cbr\u003e\nSIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, PEARL, and SIR ORFEO are masterpieces of a remote and exotic age--the age of chivalry and wizards, knights and holy quests. Yet it is only in the unique artistry and imagination of J.R.R. Tolken that the language, romance, and power of these great stories comes to life for modern readers, in this masterful and compelling new translation.\u003cbr\u003e\n      From the Back Cover      \u003cbr\u003e\nSir 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nPearl 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nSir Orfeo is a slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition. It was a special favourite of Tolkien’s.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe three translations represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals.\u003cbr\u003e\n‘The introduction to Gawain is a little masterpiece.’Times Higher Educational Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\n‘This magnificent Arthurian tale of love, sex, honour, social tact, personal integrity and folk-magic is one of the greatest and most approachable narrative poems in the language. Tolkien’s version makes it come triumphantly alive, a moving and consoling elegy.’Birmingham Post\u003cbr\u003e\n      About the Author      \u003cbr\u003e\nJohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on the 3rd January, 1892 at Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State, but at the age of four he and his brother were taken back to England by their mother. After his father’s death the family moved to Sarehole, on the south-eastern edge of Birmingham. Tolkien spent a happy childhood in the countryside and his sensibility to the rural landscape can clearly be seen in his writing and his pictures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45161308881075,"sku":"9780261102590","price":399.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/51hzKUhTfIL_57cb2e29-eb34-4a10-8539-18431940d993.jpg?v=1764681006","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/sir-gawain-and-greene-knight","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}