Background
Krishna, Valerie was born on October 8, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Robert Ellsworth and Marguerite (Hutton) Smith.
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The poems in this collection will give the reader an appreciation of both the distinctiveness and the variety of the medieval English Arthurian tradition and highlight some of this important chapter in Arthurian legend literature. The Middle English stories are different in style and structure to the later French romances, composed in poetic forms that derive from native English traditions. The Stanzaic Morte Arthur is the earliest version of the Lancelot-Guinevere story in English; The Awyntas off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyn is a serious moral poem while the story of the Avowing is a tail-rhyme romance. The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell is a strongly folkloric variation of Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale and Syre Gawene and the Carle of Carlyle is an alternative version of the testing of Gawain. Originally published in 1991, the translator gives an introduction to each poem as well as a general introduction about the development of the Arthurian poetic tradition.
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One of the finest narrative poems of the Middle Ages translated in its entirety by a recognized authority on the poem. This volume represents an important chapter in the evolution of the Arthurian legend. It is marked as an epic poem by its celebration of battle and conquest and its unsentimental depiction of combat and death.
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Krishna, Valerie was born on October 8, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Robert Ellsworth and Marguerite (Hutton) Smith.
Bachelor cum laude, Ripon (Wisconsin) College, 1956; Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1959; Doctor of Philosophy, New York University, 1971.
Lecturer English, City College, CUNY, 1970-1971; assistant professor, City College, CUNY, 1971-1977; associate professor, City College, CUNY, 1977-1983; Professor of English, City College, CUNY, since 1984; assistant chairman Department English, City College, CUNY, 1979-1982. Visiting associate professor New York University, 1982.
( The poems in this collection will give the reader an ap...)
(One of the finest narrative poems of the Middle Ages tran...)
Member Modern Language Association, New Chaucer Society, Medieval Academy American, Medieval Club of New York (vice president 1983-1984).
Married Kumar Krishna, July 30, 1960.