'Beowulf' and Other Old English Poems

Rarely are these works translated by someone who is both a medieval scholar and a poet, and this combination makes for both fidelity to the complexity of the originals and compelling poetry in a modern idiom.

List of contents

Foreword by Tom Shippey

Note on Editions

Guide to Pronouncing Old English

On Translating Old English Poetry

BEOWULF

Introduction

Beowulf

OTHER OLD ENGLISH POEMS

A Note on Genres

Heroic or Historical Poems

The Battle of Maldon

Deor

Elegies

The Wanderer

The Seafarer

The Wife's Lament

Wulf and Eadwacer

Selected Exeter Book Riddles

Riddles

Gnomic or Wisdom Poems

Maxims II (Cotton Maxims)

Charms

The Fortunes of Men

Religious Poems

Cædmon's Hymn

Physiologus: Panther and Whale

Vainglory

Two Advent Lyrics

The Dream of the Rood

Appendix A. "Digressions": Battles, Feuds, and Family Strife in Beowulf

Appendix B. Genealogies in Beowulf

Appendix C. Two Scandinavian Analogues of Beowulf

Appendix D. Possible Riddle Solutions

Glossary of Proper Names

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Craig Williamson is the Alfred H. and Peggi Bloom Professor of English Literature at Swarthmore College. He is editor and translator of A Feast of Creatures, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Tom Shippey is Professor Emeritus of English at St. Louis University.

Summary

Rarely are these works translated by someone who is both a medieval scholar and a poet, and this combination makes for both fidelity to the complexity of the originals and compelling poetry in a modern idiom.

Product details

• Authors: Craig Williamson, Craig (EDT)/ Shippey Williamson
• Assisted by: Craig Williamson (Editor), Craig Williamson (Translation)
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.06.2013
• EAN: 9780812222753
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2275-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: The Middle Ages Series; Middle Ages; Middle Ages; The Middle Ages Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Texte: Antike und Mittelalter, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh