This Norton Critical Edition presents significant examples of one of the most important bodies of English poetry written before the Renaissance.\ The texts of the seven romances included—Havelok, Ywain and Gawain, Sir Orfeo, Sir Launfal, The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne, The Weddyng of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnell, and The Sege off Melayne—are complete, authoritative (rendered from the best manuscripts), and comprehensively glossed and annotated for undergraduate readers. In...
This Norton Critical Edition presents significant examples of one of the most important bodies of English poetry written before the Renaissance.