Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation) by Simon Armitage

Rediscovered only 200 years ago, and published for the first time in 1839, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the earliest great stories of English literature. It narrates in crystalline verse …

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