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This is a list of translations of Beowulf, one of the best-known Old English heroic epic poems. Beowulf has been translated many times in verse and in prose. By 2020, the Beowulf's Afterlives Bibliographic Database listed some 688 translations and other versions of the poem, from Thorkelin's 1787 transcription of the text, and in at least 38 languages.
The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. Translated by Kline, A. S. Poetry in Translation. 2015. ISBN 9781512129465. "Duino Elegies". Being Here is Glorious: On Rilke, Poetry, and Philosophy with a New Translation of the Duino Elegies. Translated by Reid, James D. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. 2015. ISBN 9780199569410. OCLC 961807367.
Each table is arranged alphabetically by the specific work, then by the language of the translation. Translations are then sub-arranged by date of publication (earliest-latest). Where possible, the date of publication given is the date of the first edition by that translator. More modern editions/versions may be available.
José García Villa's Many Voices (1939) and Poems of Doveglion (1941); Poems (1940) by Angela Manalang-Gloria; Chorus for America: Six Philippine Poets (1942) by Carlos Bulosan; Zoilo Galang's A Child of Sorrow (1921), the first Filipino novel in English, and Box of Ashes and Other Stories (1925), the first collection of stories in book form;
They collected, transcribed, and translated various parts and versions of the Darangen from Maranao elders and from kirim (handwritten Maranao songbooks written in the Jawi alphabet) over a period of ten years. The entire epic was published from 1986 to 1988 in eight volumes, in both original Maranao and their English translations.
The Old English poetry which has received the most attention deals with what has been termed the Germanic heroic past. Scholars suggest that Old English heroic poetry was handed down orally from generation to generation. [42] As Christianity began to appear, re-tellers often recast the tales of Christianity into the older heroic stories.
Huhud hi aliguyon (a translation of an Ifugao harvest song, Stanford, 1952) The Flaming Lyre (a collection of poems, Craftsman House, 1959) The Thrilling Poetical Jousts of Balagtasan (1960) Bataan Harvest (war poems, A.S Florentino, 1973) The Woman Who Looked Out the Window (a collection of short stories, A.S Florentino, 1973)
J. R. R. Tolkien, in his 1940 essay "On Translating Beowulf ", stated that it was not possible to translate each Old English word by a single word and create a readable modern English text. He gave the example of eacen , which might mean 'stalwart', 'broad', 'huge', or 'mighty' according to the context, whereas the word's connotations are of ...