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Beowulf: A Translation PDF

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by Thomas Meyer| 314 pages| 1.1| English

About Beowulf: A Translation

Many modern Beowulf translations, while excellent in their own ways, suffer from what Kathleen Biddick might call “melancholy” for an oral and aural way of poetic making. By and large, they tend to preserve certain familiar features of Anglo-Saxon verse as it has been constructed by editors, philologists, and translators: the emphasis on caesura and alliteration, with diction and syntax smoothed out for readability. The problem with, and the paradox of this desired outcome, especially as it concerns Anglo-Saxon poetry, is that we are left with a document that translates an entire organizing principle based on oral transmission (and perhaps composition) into a visual, textual realm of writing and reading. The sense of loss or nostalgia for the old form seems a necessary and ever-present shadow over modern Beowulfs. What happens, however, when a contemporary poet, quite simply, doesn’t bother with any such nostalgia? When the entire organizational apparatus of the poem–instead of being uneasily approximated in modern verse form–is itself translated into a modern organizing principle, i.e., the visual text? This is the approach that poet Thomas Meyer takes.

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Author:Thomas Meyer
ISBN:9780615612652
Pages:314
Language:English
File Size:1.1
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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