Medieval History
Simon Armitage, trans. The Death of King Arthur. New York: Norton, 2012.
Reviewed by Leah Haught ([email protected])
Originally released as a hardcover edition in December 2011, Norton?s December 2012 publication of Simon Armitage?s verse translation of the Alliterative Morte Arthure (The Death of King Arthur) as a paperback will undoubtedly cause this edition of the poem, which aims to make the late fourteenth or early fifteenth-century poem accessible to modern audiences ?in unflinching and gory detail,? to be more broadly circulated among scholars and poetry aficionados alike [1]. Presented as a facing-page translation alongside Larry D. Benson?s 1974 transcription of the Middle English text, Armitage?s rendition is a handsome addition to the relatively short list of texts that place their translations of the Alliterative Morte in continuous dialogue with the language and style of the original poem. Of equal if not more interest for scholars of medievalism, the edition also sheds light on the processes through which modern poets engage with and represent the medieval past in their work. READ FULL REVIEW HERE.
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Medieval History
Leah Haught Reviews Armitage, The Death of King Arthur
Reviewed by Leah Haught ([email protected])
Originally released as a hardcover edition in December 2011, Norton?s December 2012 publication of Simon Armitage?s verse translation of the Alliterative Morte Arthure (The Death of King Arthur) as a paperback will undoubtedly cause this edition of the poem, which aims to make the late fourteenth or early fifteenth-century poem accessible to modern audiences ?in unflinching and gory detail,? to be more broadly circulated among scholars and poetry aficionados alike [1]. Presented as a facing-page translation alongside Larry D. Benson?s 1974 transcription of the Middle English text, Armitage?s rendition is a handsome addition to the relatively short list of texts that place their translations of the Alliterative Morte in continuous dialogue with the language and style of the original poem. Of equal if not more interest for scholars of medievalism, the edition also sheds light on the processes through which modern poets engage with and represent the medieval past in their work. READ FULL REVIEW HERE.
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A previously unknown poem dating from the mid-1500s has been discovered pasted into a rare edition of works by Geoffrey Chaucer. The erotic-love poem seems to have been by a Roman Catholic woman and sent to a Protestant scholar who was the tutor to Edward...
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Good news about the future of Medievally Speaking: Dr. Leah Haught, who has been serving as an excellent Assistant Editor for our journal since 2012, has agreed to taking on the position of Associate Editor. Leah holds a Ph.D. from the University...
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