| Beowulf: The Oldest English Epic Revised Edition Contributor(s): Kennedy, Charles W. (Editor), Kennedy, Charles W. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0195024354 ISBN-13: 9780195024357 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1978 Annotation: This unique poetic rendering, available for the first time in a paperback edition, brings the experience of this earliest extant English poem closer to the modern reader. It uses the four-beat alliterative measure without attempting to reproduce the conventional Old English half-line. Consonance and assonance have also been freely used to retain the stylistic feeling of the original while keeping the language readable and contemporary. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Medieval - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821 |
| LCCN: 88672332 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5" W x 8" (0.50 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This new poetic translation brings the earliest extant English poem closer to the modern reader. Kennedy offers a translation in alliterative verse, based on Klaeber's text, of the Old English Beowulf, and provides a brief critical introduction which reviews literary and cultural discussions of the poem. |