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Ernest John Brigham Kirtlan : Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Rendered Literally into Modern English from the Alliterative Romance Poem of AD 1360, from Cotton MS Nero A x in British Museum, with an Introduction on the Arthur and Gawain Sagas in Early English Literature

'Talking of books — you might ask, when do I talk of anything else — I have read and finished "The Green Knight", which is absolutely top-hole: in fact the only fault I have to find with it is that it is too short — in itself a compliment. It never wearies you from first to last, and considering the time when it was written, some things about it, the writer's power of getting up atmosphere for instance, quite in the Bronte manner, are little short of marvellous.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Staples Lewis      Print: Book

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