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Describes the poem’s manuscript history, including the Cotton manuscript and its likely Midlands origin. Summarizes related poems by the Gawain poet (Patience, Purity, Pearl) and situates the romance within Arthurian, French medieval literary influence, and late fourteenth-century ideals of chivalry and conduct. 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M.Adams,David Daiches,E.Talbot Donaldson,George H.Ford,Samuel Holt Monk,and Hallett Smith;TheAmerican Tradition in Literature,edited by Sculley Bradley,Rich-mond Croom Beatty,and E.Hudson Long;World Masterpieces,edited by Maynard Mack,Kenneth Douglas,Howard E.Hugo,Bernard M.W.Knox,John C.McGalliard,P.M.Pasinetti,and René Wellek;and The Norton Reader,edited by Arthur M.Eastman,Caesar R.Blake,Hubert M.English,Jr.,Alan B.Howes,Robert T.Lenaghan,Leo F.McNamara,and James Rosier.  \nSIR GAWAINAND THE GREEN KNIGHT  \nA NEW VERSE TRANSLATION  \n汾  \nbyMARIE BORROFF  \nYALE UNIVERSITY  \n份  \nCOPYRIGHT ◎1967 BY w.W.NORTON &COMPANY,INC.FIRST EDITION  \nLibrary of Congress Catalog Card No.67-16601All Rights Reserved  \nPublished simultaneously in Canada byGeorge J.McLeod Limited,Toronto  \nPRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA1234567890  \nIntroduction  \nSir Gawain and the Green KnightPart IPart IIPart IIPart IV  \nThe Metrical FormReading Suggestions  \nvii  \n24425563  \n1  \n11  \n# Introduction\n\nSir Gawain and the Green Knight,in its original Middle Englishform,is recognized as a literary work of the highest quality.Yet ithas been known to us for only a hundred years,and it remainslargely inaccessible to the nonspecialist because of the difficulty ofits language,a language far more remote from the English of thepresent than that of Geoffrey Chaucer's London.  \nGawain first turns up in modern history in a manuscript belong-ing to the library of the great antiquarian of Elizabethan times,SirRobert Cotton.Cotton,in turn,seems to have obtained the manu-script from a library in Yorkshire;this is not surprising,for theGawain poet must have lived somewhere in the Midlands of England,probably near present-day Stafford.He was a contemporary ofChaucer's,but there is little likelihood that Chaucer ever heard ofhim or knew his works.  \nThe single manuscript in which Gawain is found contains threeother poems generally considered to be the work of the Gawainpoet.Two of these,called Patience and Purity,are written in thesame alliterative verse-form as Gawain;the third,called Pearl,is inan elaborate rhymed stanza.Patience tells the story of Jonah and thewhale,moralized as a lesson in submission to God's will;Purity isa loosely organized series of stories from the Bible and reflectionson the virtue(“cleanness”in the Middle English)which its titledenotes.Pearl is a dream-vision in which the narrator,stricken bythe loss of the daughter that had been his pearl of great price andwillfully rebellious against the faith he intellectually accepts,is ledby the Pearl-maiden to a state of comparative reconciliation.  \nSir Gawain and the Green Knight is an Arthurian romance;theplot of the poem,with its elements of the supernatural and ofamorous intrigue,reflects both in its main outlines and in thehandling of its descriptive details the treatment that the originallyCeltic Arthurian legends had received at the hands of suchmedieval French poets as Chrétien de Troyes.As a late fourteenth-century poem,Gawain is a product of the end of the Middle Ages.The ideal of knightly conduct-—of courage,loyalty,and courtesy—against which the poem's action is to be viewed was a long-estab-lished,though still viable,ideal,which had become subject to super-ficial acceptance and even satirical treatment.It may legitimately becompared to the Boy Scout ideal of conduct,similarly viable and  \nv₁1 ·Introduction  \nsimilarly subject to ridicule,in our century  \nThe main story elements of which the plot of Gawain is composed derive ultmately from folklore,but the poet hmself probably encountered them in French or Latin literary versions,and hewas surely the first to combine them The opening action of thepoem retells the story of the “Beheading Game”(traditionally socalled),in which an unknown challenger proposes that one of ag","cbCaieHDrXYe6WA4","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieHDrXYe6WA4","pdf",1755433,77,"English","# Introduction\n## Background and manuscript 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