TOLKIEN, J.R.R.: Sir Gawain & The Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo. , London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1975.

1st edition. "Throughout his life Professor J.R.R.Tolkien held alliterative poetry in particular affection, and over many years he endeavoured to perfect translations into current speech of those middle-English poems of which he was most fond. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl, two major and long-neglected poems by an unknown author, derive from the West Midlands, an area of England with which Professor Tolkien felt a strong affinity, and where the alliterative tradition survived strongly in the fourteenth century. Sir Orfeo is a slighter, but no less attractive, poem from a different tradition, and was an especial favourite of its translator". Pp.149. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, dustwrapper price-clipped and slightly rubbed but has a removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG. (Book ref. 22611)  £20.00

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