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This verse translation of Yvain; or, The Knight with the Lionbrings to life a fast-paced yet remarkably subtle work often considered to be the masterpiece of the twelfth-century French writer Chretien de Troyes. The creator of the Arthurian romance as a genre, Chretien is revealed in this work as a witty, versatile writer who mastered both the soaring flight of emotion and the devastating aside and was as skillful a debater of the finer points of love as he was a describer of battles.de Troyes, Chrétien is the author of 'Yvain, Or, the Knight With the Lion', published 1984 under ISBN 9780820307589 and ISBN 0820307580.
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