Premium Content Allegory in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
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'The whole things is allegorical from start to end, yet he never takes you by the neck and says "Get down to it, that's an allegory, you've got to interpret it", the way most allegorists do.' (Basil Bunting on Poetry, p.15.)
'The poem however does not take any line or lead readers to any simple value judgments. Rather ... it draws readers into…
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