Monday, 9 January 2012 -
Monday, 9 January 2012
18.30 - 20.00
The Alliterative Morte Arthure, a four thousand-line poem written some time around 1400, was part of a medieval Arthurian revival which produced such masterpieces as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Sir Thomas Malory's prose Morte D'Arthur. The Death of King Arthur 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.
One of our most popular poets, Simon Armitage is the master of this alliterative music, as his earlier version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (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.
Simon Armitage reads from The Death of King Arthur and discusses his new version with Erica Wagner, Literary Editor, The Times.
Where: Conference Centre, British Library
Price: £7.50 / £5 concessions
http://www.bl.uk/whatson/events/event124888.html
One of our most popular poets, Simon Armitage is the master of this alliterative music, as his earlier version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (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.
Simon Armitage reads from The Death of King Arthur and discusses his new version with Erica Wagner, Literary Editor, The Times.
Where: Conference Centre, British Library
Price: £7.50 / £5 concessions
http://www.bl.uk/whatson/events/event124888.html