Erec and Enide"Ms. Gilbert's couplets read beautifully, encompassing Chrétien's range of tone—from wit to elevation of sentiment—very sensitively."—Charles Muscatine, author of Chaucer and the French Tradition "A wonderfully accurate and witty translation of Chrétien's Erec and Enide which brilliantly renders the rhymed octosyllabics of the original text in compelling, colloquial English. . . . A treat not just for students and scholars of Old French literature but, more important, for what we now call general readers—that is, all those who relish a rollicking, well-told tale."—Sandra M. Gilbert, editor of The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women "Older translations, generally in stupefying Maloryan prose, convey little of the sense of the poetry so obvious in the original, and admirably reproduced in this translation."—Robert Harrison, translator of Gallic Salt: Eighteen Fabliaux "One of the best English verse renderings of any poem by Chrétien."—William J. Kibler, author of An Introduction to Old French "A union of scholarship and consummate art that affected me like the great stories I read in my formative years; a permanent vicarious experience."—Ruth Stone, poet, author of Second-Hand Coat "This will be a standard English translation of Erec and Enide and a definitive one."—Roger J. Steiner, editor of The New College French and English Dictionary |
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amie Andreas Capellanus arms Arthur's court Arthurian Romances Avallach avanture barons beauty Béroul bliaut blow brave Cadoc castle Celtic chainse chevalier chivalry Chrétien de Troyes count courteous courtesy courtly Courtly Love dame dear destrier dress dwarf Enide's Erec and Enide Erec replied Erec's fair friend fair sire fear Gaston Paris girl give gold grief guest Guiot Guivret hauberk hawk hear heard helmet honor horse host hunt joust King Arthur kiss knight lady lance Loomis lord lover Maboagrain Marie de France medieval Morholt mount neck noble Old French pain palfrey Paris Press prize Queen Guinevere rich ride rode Roques Round Table saddle seignior seneschal shame shield Sir Gawain Sir Kay speak splendid spoke squire stag sure sword tale tell Tenebroc thought tourney Trans translation vassal vavasor verse wedding of Erec Welsh wife wish word wounds Yder Yvain