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Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571249473
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Faber and Faber
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Deals with the warfare and politics: the ever-topical matter of Britain's relationship with continental Europe, and of its military interests overseas.
"The Alliterative Morte Arthure" - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around 1400 - was part of a medieval Arthurian revival which produced such masterpieces as "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and Sir Thomas Malory's prose "Morte D'Arthur". "The Death of King Arthur" deals in the cut-and-thrust of warfare and politics: the ever-topical matter of Britain's relationship with continental Europe, and of its military interests overseas. Simon Armitage is already the master of this alliterative music, as his earlier version of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (2006) so resourcefully and exuberantly showed. His new translation restores a neglected masterpiece of story-telling, by bringing vividly to life its entirely medieval mix of ruthlessness and restraint.
| ISBN | 0571249477 | | Pages | 192 | | ISBN13 | 9780571249473
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 363 | | Publisher | Faber and Faber | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Faber and Faber | | Height (mm) | 223 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 147 | | Publication date | 05 Jan 2012 | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | DEWEY | 821.1 | | Academic level | General, Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC23 | |
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Armitage, on top form, renders [Arthur] expertly. --Bill Greenwell  Be the first to write a customer review
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