Word: gawaine
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...Pearl' Poet': 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,'" Mr. Whiting, Sever...
...Pearl' Poet': 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,'" Mr. Whiting, Sever...
...professor of English at Smith College, and a translation of "Dante" by C. Langdon '82, professor of Italian at Brown. Besides this, there are included Professor Grandgent's recent book of essays entitled "Old and New," and Professor Kittredge's "The Old Farmer and His Almanac," "Chaucer," "Gawain and the Green Knight," and Professor Carver's "Essays on Social Justice...
...Study of Gawain and the Green Knight" is the title of a new book by Professor George Lyman Kittredge '82, of the English Department, which has just been published by the University Press. This volume, which is the result of thirteen years of thought and labor, has two objects: the first is to trace the history of a great romance, while the second is to illustrate early literature...
Professor Kittredge then spoke on the great merites of the poem. The interest increases steadily towards the climax through a series of episodes which are true developments of the plot, not a string of disconnected adventures. The interviews between Sir Gawain and the lady are managed with great delicacy, yet with no distinct reticence. Few things, too, could have been more difficult than to conduct Sir Gawain through these adventures without making him appear ridiculous. He is pictured as modest, brave, courteous and steadfast in faith. Even King Arthur is not the shadowy phantom we usually meet with, but real...