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Brave, chivalrous, loyally faithful to his plighted word, scrupulously heedful of his own and others' honour, Gawain stands before us in this poem. We take up Malory or Tennyson, and in spite of their charm of style, in spite of the halo of religious mysticism in which they have striven to enwrap their characters, we lay them down with a feeling of dissatisfaction. How did the Gawain of their imagination, this empty-headed, empty-hearted worldling, cruel murderer, and treacherous friend, ever come to be the typical English hero? For such Gawain certainly was, even more than Arthur himself. Then we turn back to these faded pages, and read the quaintly earnest words in which the old writer reveals the hidden meaning of that mystic symbol, the pentangle, and vindicates Gawain's title to claim it as his badge-and we smile, perhaps; but we cease to wonder at the widespread popularity of King Arthur's famous nephew, or at the immense body of romance that claims him as its hero.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781515452218 |
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Publisher: | Wilder Publications |
Publication date: | 09/16/2021 |
Pages: | 60 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.14(d) |
Table of Contents
Contents Preface to the First Edition PART ONE Of the Making of Britain How Arthur Held High Feast at Camelot New Year’s Day Of the Noble Knights There Present The Coming of the Green Knight The Fashion of the Knight Of the Knight’s Steed The Arming of the Knight Of the Knight’s Challenge The Silence of the Knights How Sir Gawain Dared the Venture The Making of the Covenant The Giving of the Blow The Marvel of the Green Knight PART TWO The Waning of the Year Sir Gawain Bethinks Him of His Covenant The Arming of Sir Gawain Wherefore Sir Gawain Bare the Pentangle How Sir Gawain Went Forth Of Sir Gawain’s Journey How Sir Gawain Came to a Fair Castle on Christmas Eve How Sir Gawain Was Welcomed Sir Gawain Tells His Name The Lady of the Castle Of the Christmas Feast How the Feast Came to an End but Gawain Abode at the Castle Sir Gawain Makes a Covenant with His Host PART THREE The First Day’s Hunting How the Lady of the Castle Came to Sir Gawain How the Lady Kissed Sir Gawain How the Covenant Was Kept Of the Second Day’s Hunting Of the Lady and Sir Gawain How the Lady Strove to Beguile Sir Gawain with Words of Love How the Boar Was Slain The Keeping of the Covenant Of the Third Day’s Hunting How the Lady Came for the Third Time to Sir Gawain The Lady Would Fain Have a Parting Gift from Gawain She Would Give Him Her Ring Or Her Girdle The Virtue of the Girdle How Sir Gawain Took the Girdle The Death of the Fox How Sir Gawain Kept Not All the Covenant How Sir Gawain Took Leave of His Host PART FOUR The Robing of Sir Gawain How Sir Gawain Went Forth from the Castle The Squire’s Warning Of the Knight of the Green Chapel Sir Gawain Is None Dismayed The Finding of the Chapel The Coming of the Green Knight How Sir Gawain Failed to Stand the Blow Of the Green Knight’s Reproaches How the Green Knight Dealt the Blow Of the Three Covenants The Shame of Sir Gawain How Sir Gawain Would Keep the Girdle How the Marvel Was Wrought How Sir Gawain Came Again to Camelot Sir Gawain Makes Confession of His Fault The Knights Wear the Lace in Honour of Gawain The End of the TaleFrom the B&N Reads Blog
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