Word: gawain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Kittredge delivered the second of his talks on the English romance of Iwain and Gawain last evening in Sever 11. His lecture was thoroughly interesting from beginning to end. Lack of space however, prevents us from giving a full report...
...Early English Gawain Romances. $1. Iwain and Gawain. Lecture. Professor Kittredge. Sever...
...unfortunate that more college men could not have heard Prof. Kittredge's lecture last night in Sever 11. The lecture was the first of a series in the Gawain Romances, the subject being the story of "Gawain and the Green Knight...
...scene opens at King Arthur's court at Christmas. During the festivities a huge knight clad in green enters and challenges anyone to exchange blows with him. Gawain accepts and testing the knight's axe, cut off his head at a blow. The Green Knight, however, unhurt picks up his head and rides off. Gawain is to go to a place called Green Chapel and receive his return blow in a year. After All-Hallow Feast, Gawain sets out for the Green Chapel. At Christmas time he comes to a castie, whose owner, a huge knight, tells him that...
...seventies of the 14th century. The poem is superior to any other of its kind in the English language. The plot is clear and the action is well managed. There is no padding. The great theme of all four of the author's poems is cleanness, appearing in "Gawain and the Green Knight," in Gawain's resistance to the temptations of the knight's wife...