TY - BOOK ID - 77896963 TI - Yvain : the Knight of the Lion AU - Chrétien de Troyes. AU - Duggan, Joseph J. AU - Raffel, Burton PY - 1987 SN - 0300187580 9780300187588 0300038372 9780300038378 0300038380 9780300038385 PB - New Haven (Conn.): Yale university DB - UniCat KW - Arthurian romances. KW - Romances KW - Yvain KW - Ywain KW - Owein KW - Ivain KW - Uwaine KW - Uwain KW - Arthurian romances KW - Ywain (Legendary character) KW - Translations into English KW - Yvain (Legendary character) KW - Arthurian romances.. KW - Romances -- Translations into English.. KW - Ywain (Legendary character) -- Romances. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77896963 AB - The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien's major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.  ER -