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Beowulf (/ ˈ b eɪ ə w ʊ l f /; [1] Old English: Bēowulf [ˈbeːowuɫf]) is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It is one of the most important and most often translated works of Old English literature .
Donaldson is known also for his 1966 prose translation of Beowulf; it was widely read, especially in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, of which he was a founding editor. [ 6 ] [ 3 ] The scholar Hugh Magennis calls it accurate, "foreignizing" prose, using asyndetic coordination , "somewhat ponderous but ...[with a] dignified tone ...
John Lesslie Hall (March 2, 1856 – February 23, 1928), also known as J. Lesslie Hall, was an American literary scholar and poet known for his translation of Beowulf.. Born in Richmond, Virginia, he was the son of Jacob Hall, Jr. Hall attended Randolph–Macon College and received a PhD from Johns Hopkins University.
Over a thousand years ago, a writer (or writers) penned an epic poem about a warrior named Beowulf who must defeat an evil monster (the story is replete with power struggles, lots of killing and ...
Select Translations of Old English Poetry. Boston: Ginn & Company. Tinker, Chauncey Brewster (1903). The Translations of Beowulf: A Critical Biography. Yale studies in English,16. New York: Henry Holt. —— (1915). The Salon and English Letters: Chapters on the Interrelations of Literature and Society in the Age of Johnson. New York: MacMillan.
Frederick J. Klaeber (born Friedrich J. Klaeber; 1 October 1863 – 4 October 1954) was a German philologist who was Professor of Old and Middle English at the University of Minnesota. His edition of the poem Beowulf , published as Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg, is considered a classic work of Beowulf scholarship; it has been in print ...
Old English Enigmatic Poems and the Play of the Texts (Brepols, 2006). ISBN 2-503-51530-4. Old English Heroic Poems and the Social Life of Texts (Brepols, 2007). ISBN 978-2-503-52080-3. Beowulf and Lejre (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2007) - with Tom Christensen and Marijane Osborn. ISBN 978-0-86698-368-6.
The difficulty of translating Beowulf from its compact, metrical, alliterative form in a single surviving but damaged Old English manuscript into any modern language is considerable, [1] matched by the large number of attempts to make the poem approachable, [2] and the scholarly attention given to the problem.