{"id":9782,"date":"2017-07-28T09:08:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T13:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9782"},"modified":"2017-07-28T09:08:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T13:08:46","slug":"new-gawain-and-green-knight-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9782","title":{"rendered":"New Gawain and Green Knight Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Wilson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/ever-green\/article\/2009030\">praises a new translation<\/a> of\u00a0<em>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight<\/em> by John Ridland,\u00a0calling it a &#8220;startling success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most translators have either abandoned the <em>[loose alliterative lines of the original]<\/em> altogether or tried to replicate its alliterative movement in hopes of conveying its harsh, Germanic energy. Ridland, in contrast, renders the poem in loose iambic heptameter, thereby giving us a form that sounds both native and natural to our ear. He also introduces sporadic and spritely alliteration to preserve a hint of the poem\u2019s exotic roughness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He offers an excerpt, which you might compare with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryintranslation.com\/PITBR\/English\/GawainAndTheGreenKnight.htm#anchor_Toc178583489\">this translation <\/a>(from the first stanza of part two):<\/p>\n<p>a year turns full turn, and yields never a like;<br \/>\nthe form of its finish foretold full seldom.<br \/>\nFor this Yuletide passed by, and the year after,<br \/>\nand each season slips by pursuing another:<br \/>\nafter Christmas comes crabbed Lenten time,<br \/>\nthat forces on flesh fish and food more simple.<\/p>\n<p>(via Prufrock News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Wilson praises a new translation of\u00a0Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by John Ridland,\u00a0calling it a &#8220;startling success.&#8221; Most translators have either abandoned the [loose alliterative lines of the original] altogether or tried to replicate its alliterative movement in hopes of conveying its harsh, Germanic energy. Ridland, in contrast, renders the poem in loose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9782\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Gawain and Green Knight Translation<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[2593],"class_list":["post-9782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}