Beowulf: A Prose Translation

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This prose translation of Beowulf is both accurate and faithful, capturing the full meaning and spirit of the original Old English epic. It is enhanced by scholarly sections providing historical, linguistic, and literary contexts, including analyses of Old English language and poetry, tribal genealogies, and manuscript illustrations.
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Ideal for students, scholars, and enthusiasts of classic literature and medieval studies seeking a reliable and richly contextualised version of Beowulf.

The text of this edition of Beowulf is based on the highly regarded Donaldson prose translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem.

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Accurate and literally faithful, the Donaldson translation conveys the full meaning and spirit of the original.

Backgrounds and Contexts provides readers with the historical, linguistic, and literary settings of Beowulf, including Robert C. Hughes on the origins of the Old English language, E. Talbot Donaldson's presentation of the major features of Old English poetry, new material on Beowulf's tribes and genealogies, three maps, and a facsimile illustration of the manuscript.

Criticism collects seven new and wide-ranging interpretations of Beowulf by Fred C. Robinson, Roberta Frank, John D. Niles, Michael Lapidge, Joyce Hill, Helen Bennett, and Nicholas Howe.

A Glossary of Proper Names and a Selected Bibliography are included.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780393974065

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 November 1998

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Edition: Second Edition

Illustration: Maps and illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Nicholas Howe
Translated by E. Talbot Donaldson

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 213.0mm

Weight: 193g

Pages: 224

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry Series: Norton Critical Editions

About the Author

Nicholas Howe was Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Professor of English at The Ohio State University. He was the author of The Old English Catalogue Poems: A Study in Poetic Form, Migration, and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England, Writing the Map of Anglo-Saxon England, and of the Yale Guide to Old English Literature. E. Talbot Donaldson was Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Indiana University. His books include Piers Plowman: The C-Text and Its Poets, Chaucer’s Poetry: An Anthology for the Modern Reader, and, with George Kane, the definitive edition of Piers Plowman: The B Version. He was a founding editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature.