6 APRIL 1929, Page 27

In the Arthurian cycle there is one story of great

splendour and imaginative beauty which stands apart from the other episodes. It survives in a fourteenth-century alliterative poem which has been called " the jewel of mediaeval English literature." Mr. S. 0. Andrew, in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Dent, 4s. 6d.) has made a modern version of the poem for the ordinary reader, keeping, as far as he could without strain, the metre and the phrases of the original. No work of mediaeval fantasy is more clear and bright ; none keeps more beautifully the atmosphere of heroism and honour.

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