Simon Armitage The Death of King Arthur Paperback Book

By the Poet LaureateThe Alliterative Morte Arthure the title given to a fourthousand 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 Malorys prose Morte DArthur. The Death of King Arthur deals in the cutandthrust of warfare and politics the evertopical matter of Britains 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 storytelling, by bringing vividly to life its entirely medieval mix of ruthlessness and restraint. | Simon Armitage The Death of King Arthur Paperback Book