Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Marie Borroff’s translations of Middle English verse became legendary in her lifetime. She was an acclaimed critic, teacher, translator and poet, and pioneering female scholar at Yale, and her impeccable sense of rhythm infuses every choice in this translation. Read aloud, her words sing and declaim, transporting a modern reader into the vivid sounds and colours of medieval romance.—Ardis Butterfield, Yale University