Tag Archives: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The Green Knight’s Lesson: Love Life

By Robin Bates | Published: August 18, 2024

A Loren Eiseley passage on seeing his blood put me in mind of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, where Gawain has a similar revelation.

By Robin Bates | Published: December 20, 2023

“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” pits paganism’s Winter Solstice against Christmas. But reconciliation is possible.

By Robin Bates | Published: December 7, 2023

Hamlet, Beowulf, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight each show us powerful ways to grieve.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 13, 2023

We’re currently visiting Anglesey, Wales and can thus appreciate John Betjeman’s idyllic poem about the bay.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 9, 2023

As I read Proust’s “Swann’s Way,” I imagined what it must have meant to a friend, who read it when he was dying.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 9, 2023

A dying friend decided to read, in his last months, Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” As I read it, I’m beginning to understand why.

By Robin Bates | Published: December 6, 2022

“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” is a profound meditation on death and a comic masterpiece. The film about it? Not so much.

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By Robin Bates | Published: July 13, 2022

Silence in the classroom can feel unbearable. Like Camelot silence in the face of the Green Knight.

By Robin Bates | Published: June 20, 2022

Early works of Brit Lit used summer solstice imagery to explore clashes between Christian England and its pagan past.