Tolkien Studies:
An Annual Scholarly Review
Edited by Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout and Verlyn Flieger
Volume 1, 2004
West Virginia University Press
Morgantown
ISBN 0937058874
Hardback
Not illustrated
Page Ref.: None Notes
Includes 'Sir Orfeo: A Middle English Version by J.R.R. Tolkien', an article by Carl F. Hostetter that reprints the 1944 text of Sir Orfeo as edited by Tolkien, together with his editorial note. See pp.85-123.
The article also includes an analysis of the differences and similarities between the 1944 text and those found in Sisam’s Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose (1921) and Tolkien’s Modern English translation published in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo (1975). |