Volume 55, Number 4 · March 20, 2008
A Successful Defiance
By Christopher Ricks
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation
by Simon Armitage
Norton, 198 pp., $25.95
Time, like many another governing body, hands out titles. So it is that an untitled Arthurian romance from the fourteenth century, in Middle English, has come to be known as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Well dubbed. Arise, Sir Gawain, and likewise the Green Knight.
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