The Word Exchange - Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation (Hardcover)

Encompassing a wide range of voices-from weary sailors to forlorn wives, from heroic saints to drunken louts, from farmers hoping to improve their fields to sermonizers looking to save your soul the 123 poems collected in The Word Exchange complement the portrait of medieval England that emerges from Beowulf, the most famous Anglo-Saxon poem of all. Offered here are tales of battle, travel, and adventure, but also songs of heartache and longing, pearls of lusty innuendo and clear-eyed stoicism, charms and spells for everyday use, and seven "hoards" of delightfully puzzling riddles. Featuring all-new translations by seventy-four of our most celebrated poets including Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Billy Collins, Eavan Boland, Paul Muldoon, Robert Hass, Gary Soto, Jane Hirshfield, David Ferry, Molly Peacock, Yusef Komunyakaa, Richard Wilbur, and many others The Word Exchange is a landmark work of translation, as fascinating and multivocal as the original literature it translates."

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2011
First published:	December 2010
Editors:	Greg Delanty • Michael Matto
Foreword by:	Seamus Heaney
Dimensions:	244 x 165 x 41mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	576
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-07901-2
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	0-393-07901-5
Barcode:	9780393079012

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