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Stanley B Greenfield one of the worlds foremost AngloSaxon scholars writes of why after more than thirty years of study he undertook the Herculean task of rendering Beowulf into contemporary verse I wanted my translation to be not only faithful to the original but as the late John Lennon would have put it A Poem in Its Own Write I wanted it to flow to be easy to read with the narrative movement of a modern prose story yet to suggest the rhythmic cadences of the Old English poem I wanted it both modern and Old English in its reflexes and sensibilities delighting both the general reader and the AngloSaxon specialist I wanted it to reproduce the intoxication of aural contours which might have pleased and amused warriors over their cups in the AngloSaxon meadhall or those monks in AngloSaxon monasteries who paid more attention to song and to stories of Ingeld than to the lector and the gospelsGreenfield has succeeded to a remarkable degree in reaching his goals An early reviewer of the manuscript Daniel G Calder of UCLA wrote I find it the best translation of BeowulfOne of the great problems with other translations is that they make the reading of Beowulf difficult Greenfields translation speeds along with considerable ease Scholars will find the translation fascinating as an exercise in the successful recreating of various aspects of Old English poetic style
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The bestknown literary achievement of AngloSaxon England Beowulf is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes treasure and transience feuds and fidelity Composed sometime between 500 and 1000 CE and surviving in a single manuscript it is at once immediately accessible and forever mysterious And in Craig Williamsons splendid new version this often translated work may well have found its most compelling modern English interpreterWilliamsons Beowulf appears alongside his translations of many of the major works written by AngloSaxon poets including the elegies The Wanderer and The Seafarer the heroic Battle of Maldon the visionary Dream of the Rood the mysterious and heartbreaking Wulf and Eadwacer and a generous sampling of the Exeter Book riddles Accompanied by a foreword by noted medievalist Tom Shippey on AngloSaxon history culture and archaeology and Williamsons introductions to the individual poems as well as his essay on translating Old English the texts transport us back to the medieval scriptorium or ancient mead hall to share an exiles lament or herdsmans recounting of the story of the worlds creation From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling account of Beowulfs battle with a treasurehoarding dragon the world becomes a place of rare wonder in Williamsons lines Were his idiom not so modern we might almost think the AngloSaxon poets had taken up the lyre again and begun to sing after a silence of a thousand years
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The date of Beowulf debated for almost a century is a small question with large consequences Does the poem provide us with an accurate if idealized view of early Germanic culture Or is it rather a creature of nostalgia and imagination born of the desire of a later age to create for itself a glorious past If we cannot decide when between the 5th and 11th centuries the poem was composed we cannot distinguish what elements in Beowulf belong properly to the history of material culture to the history of myth and legend to political history or to the development of the English literary imaginationThis book represents both individual and concerted attempts to deal with this important question and presents one of the most important inconclusions in the study of Old English The contributors raise so many doubts turn up so much new and disturbing information dismantle so many longaccepted scholarly constructs that Beowulf studies will never be the same henceforth every discussion of the poem and its period will begin with reference to this volume
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Seamus Heaneys translation of Beowulf is a work that is both true to the original poem and an expression of something fundamental to Heaneys own creative gift One of the great classics of European Literature the poem is about encountering the monstrous defeating it being exhausted by it and then having to live on physically and psychically exposed in that exhausted aftermath There are obvious parallels to be found in the history of the twentieth century and Heaneys Beowulf cannot fail to be read partly in the light of his Northern Irish upbringing But it also transcends such considerations revealing psychological and spiritual truths that are both permanent and liberating
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Book is in UsedVeryGood condition Pages and cover are clean and intact Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting 122
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The classic tale of monsterhunting dragonfighting Beowulf here in its original Old EnglishnbspBeowulf is the greatest surviving work of literature in Old English unparalleled in its epic grandeur and scope It tells the story of the heroic Beowulf and of his battles first with the monster Grendel who has laid waste to the great hall of the Danish king Hrothgar then with Grendels avenging mother and finally with a dragon that threatens to devastate his homeland Through its blend of myth and history Beowulf vividly evokes a twilight world in which men and supernatural forces live side by side and celebrates the endurance of the human spirit in a transient worldFor more than seventy years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the Englishspeaking world With more than 1700nbsptitles Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines Readers trust thenbspseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors as well as uptodatenbsptranslations by awardwinning translators
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This new highly readable edition by M A Roberts includes a glossary and readers notes to help the modern reader with the complexities archaic language and references in Beowulf In an ancient Danish kingdom Grendel a brutal monster roams the countryside nightly spreading terror across the land Beowulf a warrior of great strength and courage hears of the bloody pitiless attacks and immediately sets sail to free the Danes from Grendels bloodlust Although Beowulf dates from the very beginning of English literature this saga of a man who is most kind to his people most eager for fame is as thrilling to us now as it was to the AngloSaxons who first told it over 1000 years ago The lively language of adventure glory and sacrificeso often lost in other translationsresonates in this new Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Press Edition
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This book is a highly accurate new prose translation of the classic AngloSaxon poem Beowulf The greatest and most important of the AngloSaxon epic poems the 1200yearold Beowulf is one of the earliest pieces of literature in the English language Though in English the story is set in Scandinavia where the AngloSaxon races lived before migration to England It tells of the hero Beowulf who kills the monster Grendel after the dragonlike beast terrorizes the meadhalls carrying off and eating the Thanes that are under Beowulfs protection Fascinating for its story the echoes of myth and early religion Beowulf is critical reading for anyone interested in the blend of the Pagan and Christian traditions among the AngloSaxons This edition is a readable prose translation
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Beowulf is one of the most important poems in Old English and the first major poem in European vernacular language It dramatizes behavior in a complex social worlda martial aristocratic world that we often distort by imposing on it our own biases and values In this crossdisciplinary study John Hill looks at Beowulf from a comparative ethnological point of view He provides a thorough examination of the sociocultural dimensions of the text and compares the social milieu of Beowulf to that of similarly organized cultures Through examination of historical analogs in northern Europe and France as well as past and present societies on the Pacific rim in Southeast Asia a complex and extended society is uncovered and an astonishingly different Beowulf is illuminatedThe study is divided into five major essays on ethnology and social drama the temporal world the legal world the economy of honour and the psychological world Hill presents a realm where genealogies incorporate social and political statements in this world gift giving has subtle and manipulative dimensions both violent and peaceful exchange form a political economy acts of revenge can be baleful or have jural force and kinship is as much a constructible fact as a natural one Family and kinship relations revenge themes heroic poetry myth legality and political discussions all bring the importance of the social institutions in Beowulf to the foreground allowing for a fuller understanding of the poems and its implications for AngloSaxon societynbsp
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Beowulf the major surviving poem in Old English is composed in a language that is rich but often difficult This edition makes the poem more accessible in its original language and at the same time provides the materials necessary for its detailed study at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels As well as supplying a full textual commentary George Jack includes extensive running glosses beside the text in order to facilitate the reading of Beowulf for students at any stage Also included is the text of the Finnsburh Fragment because of its special relevance to Beowulf
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This book argues that the formal art of the Old English epic Beowulf is shaped and determined by the poetic language that the poet inherited from the traditional oral culture of AngloSaxon England The patterns of meter and alliteration exhibited in the poem were not imposed by the poet on his language but were part of the language that he spoke the rules of which constituted his metrical grammar Professor Kendall investigates the constraints of syntax meter and alliteration that govern the formal art of Beowulf He shows how the halflines of the poem which are the basic units of composition are marked by the metrical grammar for placement in the verse clause he also establishes conditions for the presence or absence of alliteration which enable him to say whether in any given instance the alliterative device is a mandatory function of the rules of the metrical grammar or an option exercised by the poet
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Beowulf is one of the finest works of vernacular literature from the European Middle Ages and as such is a fitting title to head the Old English family of texts published in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library But this volume offers something unique For the first time in the history of Beowulf scholarship the poem appears alongside the other four texts from its sole surviving manuscript the prose Passion of Saint Christopher The Wonders of the East The Letter of Alexander the Great to Aristotle and following Beowulf the poem Judith Firsttime readers as well as established scholars can now gain new insights into Beowulfand the four other textsby approaching each in its original context Could a fascination with the monstrous have motivated the compiler of this manuscript working over a thousand years ago to pull together this diverse grouping into a single volume The prose translation by R D Fulk based on the most recent editorial understanding allows readers to rediscover Beowulfs brilliant mastery along with otherworldly delights in the four companion texts in The Beowulf Manuscript
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