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"Beowulf" and Other Old English Poems (Paperback)
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"Beowulf" and Other Old English Poems (Paperback)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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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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