Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo 1975
- Modernized versions, English poetry, Manuscripts, English (Middle), Knights and knighthood
Contains three stories from the age of chivalry, knights and holy quests.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and nostalgic.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
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- First published
- 1975
- Pages
- 165
- Publisher
- Pearson Education, Limited, Houghton Mifflin, Unwin Paperbacks
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- enm, Spanish, und, English
- ISBN
- 9780048210395
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“THE spelling of the manuscript is reproduced, except for correction of scribal errors.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), which are set in a pre-historic era in an invented version of the world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. This was peopled by Men (and women), Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orcs (or Goblins) and of course Hobbits. He has regularly been condemned by the Eng. Lit. establishment, with honourable exceptions, but loved by literally millions of readers worldwide. In the
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