A Readable Beowulf: The Old English Epic Newly Translated by Greenfield, Stanley B - 1982

Southern Illinois University Press, 1982. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Southern Illinois University Press. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Southern Illinois University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Southern Illinois University, 1982. First. Paperback. Very Good, corner bent on cover.

Book is clean. No marks, no reader notes. Introduction by Alain Renoir. Glossary of proper names, Bibliography. Beowulf in contemporary verse.

Southern Illinois University Press, 1982. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Light thumbing, light rubbing, else tight and clean.

Edwardsville, Il: Southern Illinois University Pr, 1982. Book. Illus. by Johns, Ann. Very Good. Soft cover. 161 Pgs. Introduction & Appendices; Vg+ Uncracked Spine, No Marks; Slight Wear At Edges..

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Paperback / softback. New. 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 contemporary verse: I wanted my translation to be not only faithful 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 sensibilities, 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 warriors 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… Read More

Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 1982. Paperback. New. 176 pages. 8.75x7.25x0.75 inches.