Erec Et Enide

"Ms. Gilbert's couplets read beautifully, encompassing ChrÉtien's range of tone--from wit to elevation of sentiment--very sensitively."--Charles Muscatine, author ofChaucer and the French Tradition "A wonderfully accurate and witty translation of ChrÉtien'sErec and Enidewhich brilliantly renders the rhymed octosyllabics of the original text in compelling, colloquial English. . . . A treat not just for students and scholars of Old French literature but, more important, for what we now call general readers--that is, all those who relish a rollicking, well-told tale."--Sandra M. Gilbert, editor ofThe Norton Anthology of Literature by Women "Older translations, generally in stupefying Maloryan prose, convey little of the sense of the poetry so obvious in the original, and admirably reproduced in this translation."--Robert Harrison, translator ofGallic Salt: Eighteen Fabliaux "One of the best English verse renderings of any poem by ChrÉtien."--William J. Kibler, author ofAn Introduction to Old French "A union of scholarship and consummate art that affected me like the great stories I read in my formative years; a permanent vicarious experience."--Ruth Stone, poet, author ofSecond-Hand Coat "This will be a standard English translation ofErec and Enideand a definitive one."--Roger J. Steiner, editor ofThe New College French and English Dictionaryde Troyes, Chrétien is the author of 'Erec Et Enide', published 1992 under ISBN 9780520073463 and ISBN 0520073460.