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Honor wagered.(W.S. Merwin, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation)(Book Review)
W.S. Merwin Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation. Knopf, 171 pages, $22
The image on the cover of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight--the new translation of it by the poet W. S. Merwin, and just published by Knopf--chillingly captures one of the most striking scenes in all of English literature. A glowing green head looks like a luminescent version of Edvard Munch's The Scream, and it's nearly as haunting. The eyes are wrong; in the poem, they're explicitly described as red, not white. Yet this single flaw is easy to forgive. The picture is unnerving, which is exactly as it should be.
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