{"id":258686,"date":"2007-12-14T20:34:40","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T20:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/12\/14\/ed-hirsch-on-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:34:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:34:48","slug":"ed-hirsch-on-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/12\/14\/ed-hirsch-on-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Hirsch on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Hirsch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/16\/books\/review\/Hirsch-t.html?_r=1&#38;8bu&#38;emc=bu&#38;oref=slogin\">reviews<\/a>  a new translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in this week&#8217;s <span class=\"caps\">NYT<\/span> Sunday Book Review:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There have been dozens of translations of \u201cSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u201d over the years. J. R. R. Tolkien\u2019s authoritative edition was a gift to readers, though his own translation now seems somewhat flowery. Marie Borroff did an alliterative version that holds up after 40 years. Ted Hughes translated some key sections, newly available in his \u201cSelected Translations,\u201d which marvelously recreate the Gawain poet\u2019s alliterative long line. Five years ago, W. S. Merwin published a learned, lyrical translation. Now Simon Armitage has given us an energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited version. He reminds us that \u201cSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u201d still wields an uncanny power after 600 years. We\u2019re fortunate that \u201cour coffers have been crammed \/ with stories such as these.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Hirsch reviews a new translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in this week&#8217;s NYT Sunday Book Review: There have been dozens of translations of \u201cSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u201d over the years. J. R. R. Tolkien\u2019s authoritative edition was a gift to readers, though his own translation now seems somewhat flowery. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[8826,2136,1646,8836],"class_list":["post-258686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-edward-hirsch","tag-ejvl","tag-review","tag-simon-armitage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327436,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258686\/revisions\/327436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}