Translating Beowulf : modern versions in English verse /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Magennis, Hugh (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Old English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, [2011]
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of 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.