Le Morte D'Arthur: The Winchester Manuscript (Oxford ...
 Signet translation much better than others: I bought this Signet translation by Keith Baines after a frustrating attempt to read the Modern Library translation by William Caxton. Caxton's dry, stilted rendition left me hungry for a cleaner, more modern [... more]
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Shards of Love: Exile and the Origins of the Lyric
Maria Rosa Menocal is America's foremost cultural critic: Anyone who thinks medieval literary criticism is dry is in for a pleasant shock when they pick up Maria Rosa Menocal's latest book. You may not agree with her, but she will change your world view [... more]
$23.95
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Divine Comedy: Inferno (Cliffs Notes)
A Cliff Note review?!?!: Well, it's odd to write a review for a set of Cliff Notes, but I'll make an exception in this case. People often equate buying Cliff Notes with kids who have to read a book and want to actually get OUT of reading the book. [... more]
$5.99
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The Tolkien Fan's Medieval Reader: Versions in Modern ...
In theory excellent; in practice maybe less so: A book like this is an excellent idea, for few of Tolkien's current readers are well-versed in the medieval literature that was one of his strongest inspirations. Anyone interested enough in Tolkien to want [... more]
$14.95
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The Canterbury Tales (Cliffs Notes)
Good Help: The notes are really helpful as a supplement to the book. I had to do a paper on it, and it gives a lot of insight on important topics to consider. Excellent handbook: Since "The Canterbury Tales" can be rather daunting for the [... more]
$5.99
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Beowulf: An Updated Verse Translation (Perennial Classics)
Unusual but good translation: Frederick Rebsamen's recently revised translation of Beowulf is stands out from the crowd. Having read the poem dozens of times, both in Old English and in translation, I have to say that this is certainly the most literal [... more]
$9.95
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Beowulf a Verse Translation
Not even bad enough to be funny: Rebsamen fails J.R.R. Tolkien's basic test of "offering an harmonious choice of modern English words" ("On Translating Beowulf). It is not as dreadful as some other translations of Beowulf, still it is [... more]
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Medieval Romances
Broad Sampling of Western European Romances: Loomis and Loomis present translations of the following tales: _Perceval, or the Story of the Grail_ by Chretien de Troyes, _Tristan and Isolt_ by Gottfried von Strassburg, _The Youth of Alexander the Great_, [... more]
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The Death of King Arthur (Penguin Classics)
Moving Close to the Tale: While "The Death of King Arthur" is the shortest romance in the entire Lancelot-Grail cycle (formerly known as the "Vulgate Cycle" and a principal source of Sir Thomas Malory) it is also one of the best [... more]
$15.00
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Laxdaela Saga (Penguin Classics)
You Can't Go Wrong With This: Icelandic Sagas are truly the best of Medeival literature. They are much easier for modern readers (and therefore more entertaining) than the epic-heroic poetry which was standard throughout the rest of Europe. Other [... more]
$15.00
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The Earliest English Poems (Penguin Classics)
Found the phrase, framed rightly: One of the characteristic aspects of Old English/Anglo-Saxon poetry is that it is highly alliterative; done in short measures with a break (the most common pattern), the use of alliteration can almost drive one to [... more]
$15.00
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The Mabinogion (Penguin Classics)
A good, readable translation of a mediocre collection: I'm a fan of tradtional Germanic epics such as Beowulf and hte Saga of Burnt Njal, as well as a fan of other medieval literature, including Wolfram von Eschenbach's "Parzifal," which tells [... more]
$12.00
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