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by Chrétien de Troyes (Author), Ruth Harwood Cline (Translator)
This verse translation of Yvain; or, The Knight with the Lion brings to life a fast-paced yet remarkably subtle work often considered to be the masterpiece of the twelfth-century French writer Chr tien de Troyes. The creator of the Arthurian romance as a genre, Chr tien is revealed in this work as a witty, versatile writer who mastered both the soaring flight of emotion and the devastating aside and was as skillful a debater of the finer points of love as he was a describer of battles.
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This verse translation of Yvain; or, The Knight With The Lion brings to life a fastpaced yet remarkably subtle work that is often considered to be the masterpiece of the twelfth-century French writer Chretien de Troyes.
Author Biography
CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES (1135?-1191?) was a French poet and trouvère. He is widely regarded as the creator of the literary genre known as the Arthurian romance, and the originator of the heroic medieval character Lancelot.
