Title Translating Beowulf : modern versions in English verse / Hugh Magennis

Published Cambridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, [2011] ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 244 pages) Contents Beowulf and translation -- Approaching the poetry of Beowulf -- Reception, perceptions, and a survey of earlier verse translations of Beowulf -- Edwin Morgan : speaking to his own age -- Burton Raffel : mastering the original to leave it -- Michael Alexander : shadowing the Old English -- Seamus Heaney : a living speech raised to the power of verse -- Other post-1950 verse translations Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-239) and index Notes In English; passages in Old English with Modern English translations Print version record Subject Beowulf -- Translations -- History and criticism. Epic poetry, English (Old) -- History and criticism. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781846158377 (electronic book) 1846158370 (electronic book) (cloth) (cloth)

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