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The Death of King Arthur Simon Armitage (Oxford)

The Death of King Arthur By Simon Armitage (Oxford)

The Death of King Arthur by Simon Armitage (Oxford)


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King Arthur comes to vivid life in this gripping poetic translation by the renowned poet and translator.

The Death of King Arthur Summary

The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage (Oxford)

First appearing around 1400, The Alliterative Morte Arthure, or, The Death of King Arthur, is one of the most widely beloved and spectacularly alliterative poems ever penned in Middle English. Now, from the internationally acclaimed translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, comes this magisterial new presentation of the Arthurian tale, rendered in unflinching and gory detail. Following Arthur's bloody conquests across the cities and fields of Europe, all the way to his spectacular and even bloodier fall, this masterpiece features some of the most spellbinding and poignant passages in English poetry. Never before have the deaths of Arthur's loyal knights, his own final hours, and the subsequent burial been so poignantly evoked.

Echoing the lyrical passion that so distinguished Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, Simon Armitage has produced a virtuosic new translation that promises to become both the literary event of the year and the definitive edition for generations to come.

The Death of King Arthur Reviews

[T]ake heart, brave literary warriors. Norton has...just published a paperback edition of Simon Armitage's spectacular translation of The Death of King Arthur. The celebrated British writer renders this anonymous poem into modern English lines that command your full allegiance. -- Ron Charles - Washington Post

About Simon Armitage (Oxford)

Simon Armitage is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds and from 2015 to 2019 served as the Oxford Professor of Poetry. He has published ten collections of poetry and is the author of four stage plays, over a dozen television films, a libretto, two novels, and three memoirs. His poetry has won numerous awards, including a Gregory Award, a Forward Prize, a Lannan Literary Award, and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. In 2019 he was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.

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GOR006697227
9780393073973
0393073971
The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage (Oxford)
Used - Very Good
Hardback
WW Norton & Co
20120301
304
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