1st edition. "Throughout his life Professor J.R.R.Tolkien held alliterative poetry in particular affection, and over many years he endeavoured to perfect translations into current speech of those middle-English poems of which he was most fond. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl, two major and long-neglected poems by an unknown author, derive from the West Midlands, an area of England with which Professor Tolkien felt a strong affinity, and where the alliterative tradition survived strongly in the fourteenth century. Sir Orfeo is a slighter, but no less attractive, poem from a different tradition, and was an especial favourite of its translator". Pp.149. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, dustwrapper price-clipped and slightly rubbed but has a removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG.

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