Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart - Chretien de Troyes - Paperback

The romantic poems of twelfth-century French poet Chretien de Troyes were of immense influence across Europe -- widely imitated, translated, and adapted. Giving rise to a tradition of story-telling that continues to this day, the poems established the shape of the nascent Arthurian legend. In this outstanding new translation of Lancelot, Burton Raffel brings to English-language readers the fourth of Chretien's five surviving romantic Arthurian poems. This poem was the first to introduce Lancelot as an important figure in the King Arthur legend.de Troyes, Chrétien is the author of 'Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart - Chretien de Troyes - Paperback' with ISBN 9780231058636 and ISBN 0231058632.