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The Complete Old English Poems (Hardcover)
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The Complete Old English Poems (Hardcover)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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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.
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