The Death Of King Arthur Av Simon Armitage

<p><b>By the Poet Laureate</b><br><br>The <i>Alliterative Morte Arthure</i> - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around 1400 - was part of a medieval Arthurian revival which produced such masterpieces as <i>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</i> and Sir Thomas Malory''s prose <i>Morte D''Arthur</i>. <i>The</i><i>Death of King Arthur</i> deals in the cut-and-thrust of warfare and politics: the ever-topical matter of Britain''s relationship with continental Europe, and of its military interests overseas. <br><br>Simon Armitage is already the master of this alliterative music, as his earlier version of <i>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</i> (2006) so resourcefully and exuberantly showed. His new translation restores a neglected masterpiece of story-telling, by bringing vividly to life its entirely medieval mix of ruthlessness and restraint.</p>