Stanley B. Greenfield, one of the world's foremost Anglo-Saxon
scholars, writes of why, after more than thirty years of study, he
undertook the Herculean task of rendering "Beowulf "into
con-temporary verse: "I wanted my translation to be not only
faith-ful to the original but, as the late John Lennon would have
put it, 'A Poem in Its Own Write.' I wanted it to 'flow, ' to be
easy to read, with the narrative movement of a modern prose story;
yet to suggest the rhythmic cadences of the Old English poem. I
wanted it both modern and Old English in its reflexes and
sen-sibilities, delighting both the general reader and the
Anglo-Saxon specialist. . . . I wanted it to reproduce the
intoxication of aural contours which... might have pleased and
amused war-riors over their cups in the Anglo-Saxon mead-hall, or
those monks in Anglo-Saxon monasteries who paid more attention to
song and to stories of Ingeld than to the "lector "and the
gospels."
Greenfield has succeeded to a remarkable degree in reaching his
goals. An early reviewer of the manuscript, Daniel G. Calder of
UCLA, wrote: "I find it the best translation of "Beowulf."
One of the great problems with other translations is that they make
the reading of "Beowulf "difficult. Greenfield's translation speeds
along with considerable ease. . . Scholars will find the
translation fascinating as an exercise in the successful
recreat-ing of various aspects of Old English poeticstyle."
General
| Imprint: |
Southern Illinois University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
May 1982 |
| First published: |
May 1982 |
| Editors: |
Stanley B Greenfield
|
| Dimensions: |
218 x 176 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
176 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8093-1060-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-8093-1060-0 |
| Barcode: |
9780809310609 |
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