This is a kind of writing that is not done anymore, but whose subjects, knights, ladies, and beings fantastic, continue to stir the popular imagination as they appear in books and film. However, the Romance is the poetic form in which they first started. Both C.S. Lewis and JRR Tolkien were profound lovers of Romances. Tolkien specially not only edited a scholarly edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, he also made a popular modern translation of it along with Sir Orpheo. The Romance is the ancestor to the modern novel, although it is profoundly different in its assumptions.
It is also important to note that this is the genre which both Cervantes and Fielding were rebelling against when they began to write in what was for them that "new-fangled" art form called The Novel.
All works are listed here in alphabetical order by the first important
word in the title
"The Knight's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer part of the Canterbury Tales [Romance][Fantasy][Medieval]
"The Wife of Bath's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer part of the Canterbury Tales [Romance][Fantasy][Medieval]
Sir Galwain and the Green Knight by Anonymous [Romance][Fantasy][Medieval]
Sir Orpheo by Anonymous [Romance][Fantasy][Medieval]
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