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Author : Hugh Magennis
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781843843948
An examination of English verse translations of Beowulf, including Seamus Heaney's version alongside other influential renditions.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Dragons
ISBN : 9357240780
Author : Lesslie Hall
Publisher : anboco
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9783736417410
It may be the oldest surviving long poem in Old English and is commonly cited as one of the most important works of Old English literature. A date of composition is a matter of contention among scholars; the only certain dating pertains to the manuscript, which was produced between 975 and 1025. The author was an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet, referred to by scholars as the "Beowulf poet". The poem is set in Scandinavia. Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, Grendel's mother attacks the hall and is then also defeated. Victorious, Beowulf goes home to Geatland and later becomes king of the Geats. After a period of fifty years has passed, Beowulf defeats a dragon, but is fatally wounded in the battle. After his death, his attendants cremate his body and erect a tower on a headland in his memory. The full poem survives in the manuscript known as the Nowell Codex, located in the British Library. It has no title in the original manuscript, but has become known by the name of the story's protagonist. In 1731, the manuscript was badly damaged by a fire that swept through Ashburnham House in London that had a collection of medieval manuscripts assembled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton.
Author : Frederick Rebsamen
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780062303912
This acclaimed modern verse translation of the timeless epic of bravery and battle captures the drama and tone of the Old English narrative poem. Here is the stirring legend of Beowulf, the great hero who saves the Danish king from the monster Grendel—only to face the avenging wrath of Grendel’s Mother. The first masterpiece of English literature, it has survived for centuries, passed down across generations through numerous versions. In this modern verse translation, Frederick Rebsamen conjures both the excitement of Beowulf’s adventures and the richness of the Old English poetic form. “No self-respecting college professor will want his students to be without it . . . With the subtle rules of alliteration, stress, and pause in place—and with a translator bold enough to invent his own vigorous and imaginative compound nouns—the poem suddenly takes flight and carries us to the highest mountains of achievement.” —Booklist “There are lots of translations of Beowulf floating around, some prose, some poetry, but none manages to capture the feel and tone of the original as well as this one.” —Dick Ringler, Professor of English and Scandinavian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Author : Thomas Meyer
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0615612652
A stunning experimental translation of the Old English poem "Beowulf," over 30 decades old and woefully neglected, by the contemporary poet Thomas Meyer, who studied with Robert Kelly at Bard, and emerged from the niche of poets who had been impacted by the brief moment of cross-pollination between U.K. and U.S. experimental poetry in the late 1960s and early 1970s, a movement inspired by Ezra Pound, fueled by interactions among figures like Ed Dorn, J.H. Prynne, and Basil Bunting, and quickly overshadowed by the burgeoning Language Writing movement. Meyer's translation -- completed in 1972 but never before published -- is sure to stretch readers' ideas about what is possible in terms of translating Anglo-Saxon poetry, as well as provide new insights on the poem itself. According to John Ashberry, Meyer's translation of this thousand-year-old poem is a "wonder," and Michael Davidson hails it as a "major accomplishment" and a "vivid" recreation of this ancient poem's "modernity."
Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 1248 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780812293210
From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, from the heart-rending lament of a lone castaway to the embodied speech of the cross upon which Christ was crucified, from the anxiety of Eve, who carries "a sumptuous secret in her hands / And a tempting truth hidden in her heart," to the trust of Noah who builds "a sea-floater, a wave-walking / Ocean-home with rooms for all creatures," the world of the Anglo-Saxon poets is a place of harshness, beauty, and wonder. Now for the first time, the entire Old English poetic corpus—including poems and fragments discovered only within the past fifty years—is rendered into modern strong-stress, alliterative verse in a masterful translation by Craig Williamson. Accompanied by an introduction by noted medievalist Tom Shippey on the literary scope and vision of these timeless poems and Williamson's own introductions to the individual works and his essay on translating Old English poetry, the texts transport us back to the medieval scriptorium or ancient mead-hall, to share a herdsman's recounting of the story of the world's creation or a people's sorrow at the death of a beloved king, to be present at the clash of battle or to puzzle over the sacred and profane answers to riddles posed over a thousand years ago. This is poetry as stunning in its vitality as it is true to its sources. Were Williamson's idiom not so modern, we might think that the Anglo-Saxon poets had taken up the lyre again and begun to sing once more.
Author : Constance Hieatt
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307434821
Unique and beautiful, Beowulf brings to life a society of violence and honor, fierce warriors and bloody battles, deadly monsters and famous swords. Written by an unknown poet in about the eighth century, this masterpiece of Anglo-Saxton literature transforms legends, myth, history, and ancient songs into the richly colored tale of the hero Beowulf, the loathsome man-eater Grendel, his vengeful water-hag mother, and a treasure-hoarding dragon. The earliest surviving epic poem in any modern European language. Beowulf is a stirring portrait of a heroic world–somber, vast, and magnificent.
Author : Michael Alexander,Michael J. Alexander
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0520015045
Author : Chauncey Brewster Tinker
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Greg Delanty,Michael Matto
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393342413
"A book the many fans of Heaney's Beowulf might take home and dip into, almost at random, for years." —Publishers Weekly Featuring 123 all-new translations by seventy-four of our most celebrated poets—including Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Billy Collins, Eavan Boland, Richard Wilbur, and many others—“this brilliant anthology infuses new vigor into Old English poetry” (Library Journal). Presented in an authoritative bilingual edition, The Word Exchange is as fascinating and multivocal as the original literature it translates.
Author : Charles William Kennedy
Publisher : New York ; London [etc.] : Oxford University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0195024354
A lengthy introduction discussing historical background accompanies the poem about the monster slayer Beowulf.
Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393320978
Presents a new translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic chronicling the heroic adventures of Beowulf, the Scandinavian warrior who saves his people from the ravages of the monster Grendel and Grendel's mother.
Author : John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544442788
Presents the prose translation of the Old English epic that Tolkien created as a young man, along with selections from lectures on the poem he gave later in life and a story and poetry he wrote in the style of folklore on the poem's themes.
Author : David Clark,Nicholas Perkins
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843842514
The Anglo-Saxon world continues to be a source of fascination in modern culture. Its manifestations in a variety of media are here examined.
Author : Matthew Reynolds
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191619182
Poetry is supposed to be untranslatable. But many poems in English are also translations: Pope's Iliad, Pound's Cathay, and Dryden's Aeneis are only the most obvious examples. The Poetry of Translation explodes this paradox, launching a new theoretical approach to translation, and developing it through readings of English poem-translations, both major and neglected, from Chaucer and Petrarch to Homer and Logue. The word 'translation' includes within itself a picture: of something being carried across. This image gives a misleading idea of goes on in any translation; and poets have been quick to dislodge it with other metaphors. Poetry translation can be a process of opening; of pursuing desire, or succumbing to passion; of taking a view, or zooming in; of dying, metamorphosing, or bringing to life. These are the dominant metaphors that have jostled the idea of 'carrying across' in the history of poetry translation into English; and they form the spine of Reynolds's discussion. Where do these metaphors originate? Wide-ranging literary historical trends play their part; but a more important factor is what goes on in the poem that is being translated. Dryden thinks of himself as 'opening' Virgil's Aeneid because he thinks Virgil's Aeneid opens fate into world history; Pound tries to being Propertius to life because death and rebirth are central to Propertius's poems. In this way, translation can continue the creativity of its originals. The Poetry of Translation puts the translation of poetry back at the heart of English literature, allowing the many great poem-translations to be read anew.
