Beowulf: A Translation - Paperback
by Thomas Meyer
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Availability:In StockContributor:David Hadbawnik (Introduction by), Daniel C. Remein (Introduction by), Thomas MeyerPublish date:2012-08-25Pages:312
Language:EnglishPublisher:Punctum BooksISBN-13:9780615612652ISBN-10:615612652UPC:9780615612652Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient & ClassicalSize:9.61 x 6.69 x 0.65 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC6685WJS4
Beowulf: A Translation
Many modern Beowulf translations, while excellent in their own ways, suffer from what Kathleen Biddick might call "melancholy" for an oral and aural way of poetic making. By and large, they tend to preserve certain familiar features of Anglo-Saxon verse as it has been constructed by editors, philologists, and translators: the emphasis on caesura and alliteration, with diction and syntax smoothed...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Punctum BooksISBN-13:9780615612652ISBN-10:615612652UPC:9780615612652Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient & ClassicalSize:9.61 x 6.69 x 0.65 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC6685WJS4
Thomas Meyer was born on Saint Valentine's Day and has always lived where there are cows and there is rain: for many years in the Yorkshire Dales, but now and more recently above a vineyard in North Carolina, at the southernmost end of the Appalachians, on the western slope of Happy Hill at Skywinding Farm. After graduating from Bard College, he joined Jonathan Williams in forty years of domestic...
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