"Beowulf" and Other Old English Poems / / ed. by Craig Williamson, Craig Williamson.
The best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes, treasure and transience, feuds and fidelity. Composed sometime between 500 and 1000 C.E. and surviving in a single manuscript, it is at once immediately accessible and forever mysterious...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 2 illus. |
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t CONTENTS -- |t Foreword -- |t Note on Editions -- |t Guide to Pronouncing Old English -- |t On Translating Old English Poetry -- |t BEOWULF -- |t Introduction -- |t Beowulf -- |t OTHER OLD ENGLISH POEMS -- |t A Note on Genres -- |t Heroic or Historical Poems -- |t Elegies -- |t Selected Exeter Book Riddles -- |t Gnomic or Wisdom Poems -- |t Religious Poems -- |t Appendix A. "Digressions": Battles, Feuds, and Family Strife in Beowulf -- |t Appendix B. Genealogies in Beowulf -- |t Appendix C. Two Scandinavian Analogues of Beowulf -- |t Appendix D. Possible Riddle Solutions -- |t Glossary of Proper Names -- |t Bibliography -- |t Index -- |t Acknowledgments |
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520 | |a The best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes, treasure and transience, feuds and fidelity. Composed sometime between 500 and 1000 C.E. and surviving in a single manuscript, it is at once immediately accessible and forever mysterious. And in Craig Williamson's splendid new version, this often translated work may well have found its most compelling modern English interpreter.Williamson's Beowulf appears alongside his translations of many of the major works written by Anglo-Saxon poets, including the elegies "The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer," the heroic "Battle of Maldon," the visionary "Dream of the Rood," the mysterious and heart-breaking "Wulf and Eadwacer," and a generous sampling of the Exeter Book riddles. Accompanied by a foreword by noted medievalist Tom Shippey on Anglo-Saxon history, culture, and archaeology, and Williamson's 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 exile's lament or herdsman's recounting of the story of the world's creation. 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, the world becomes a place of rare wonder in Williamson's lines. Were his idiom not so modern, we might almost think the Anglo-Saxon poets had taken up the lyre again and begun to sing after a silence of a thousand years. | ||
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588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) | |
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650 | 0 | |a Epic poetry, English (Old) |v Translations into English. | |
650 | 0 | |a Epic poetry, English (Old) |x History and criticism. | |
650 | 0 | |a Monsters |v Poetry. | |
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