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Layamon's Arthur

Layamon's Arthur

Barron, W. R. J.
Barron, W. R. J.
Weinberg, S. C.

Paperback

Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0859896854
ISBN13: 9780859896856
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Sep 1 2005
Pages: 362
Weight: 1.39
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.52 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
Layamon's Brut is a landmark in English literature, the first major work in English after the Norman Conquest, and the precursor of a rich Arthurian literature, from Malory to Tennyson and on to our own time. This edition combines a fully-edited version of the original text with a close parallel prose translation, together with a lengthy Introduction, textual notes and a full and up-to-date bibliography.Written c.1200-1220, the Brut develops the themes of its principal source, Robert Wace's Roman de Brut, itself a version of Geoffrey of Monmouth's bestseller, the Historia Regum Britanniae, in a metre and idiom reminiscent of Old English. It demonstrates the fundamental strength of a native culture which survived two centuries of French dominance to re-emerge as a fusion of a national tradition and continental influences.

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