Marie Borroff

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Marie Borroff


Born
in New York City, New York, The United States
September 10, 1923

Died
July 05, 2019

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Marie Borroff (1923–2019) was Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. Her verse translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was first published in 1967; it appeared together with her translations of Patience, Cleanness, Pearl, and St. Erkenwald in The Gawain Poet: Complete Works (2011). She was the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Stylistic and Metrical Study and of Traditions and Renewals: Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Beyond (1962, 2003).

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Sir Gawain and the Green Kn...

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Pearl

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Stars and Other Signs

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Traditions and Renewals: Ch...

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