The Death of King Arthur - Softcover

Armitage, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571249485 ISBN 13: 9780571249480

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 2012

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'Armitage handles the alliterative verse with great energy and verve, attaining the momentum of a siege-tower and falling off a cliff, and relishing the opportunity for comic boastfulness and gluttonous, bloodthirsty comedy ... it rips and roars and ravishes.' --Guardian
'Powerfully absorbing ... Armitage has produced another gleaming reworking of a medieval original'. --Fiona Sampson, Independent, Books of the Year
'Exhilarating and accessible.' --Daily Express

'Exhilarating and accessible.' --Daily Express

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POET LAUREATE 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.

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• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0571249485
• ISBN 13: 9780571249480
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192