Outside Reading

Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight 
     Free
    * Here is a poetic, modern, fun translation. 
     * Two more: Modernised Text by Roger Hartill;a prose translation by Jessie Weston 
     Not Free
     J.R.R. Tolkien (be careful, Tolkien also has an original language version which you don't want...you want the one linked to from here) 

Pearl 
     Free 
    *  Sophia Jewett's translation:  You can find it in iBooks; search for "Pearl Jewett."  You can also download it as a .pdf here. 

     Not Free
     Sister Mary Hillmann

Dante's Inferno
     Free
     *  Longfellow's translation is good. You can find it by searching for "The Divine Comedy: Vol. 1: Inferno" in iBooks.  Or, here it is in google books.
     *  Rev. Cary's translation with illustrations by the renowned Gustave Dore.  Awesome! You can get this in iBooks also.  Look for "The Divine Comedy Cary."
     Not Free
     Anthony Esolen
     John Ciardi 
     Dorothy Sayers

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