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Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 829.3
EAN: 9781400096220
ISBN: 1400096227
Label: Anchor
Manufacturer: Anchor
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 464
Publication Date: 2006-02-14
Publisher: Anchor
Product Release Date: 2006-02-14
Studio: Anchor
Dewey Decimal Number: 829.3
EAN: 9781400096220
ISBN: 1400096227
Label: Anchor
Manufacturer: Anchor
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 464
Publication Date: 2006-02-14
Publisher: Anchor
Product Release Date: 2006-02-14
Studio: Anchor
Editorial Review of Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition
The first major poem in English literature, Beowulf tells the story of the life and death of the legendary hero Beowulf in his three great battles with supernatural monsters. The ideal Anglo-Saxon warrior-aristocrat, Beowulf is an example of the heroic spirit at its finest.
Leading Beowulf scholar Howell D. Chickering, Jr.’s, fresh and lively translation, featuring the Old English on facing pages, allows the reader to encounter Beowulf as poetry. This edition incorporates recent scholarship and provides historical and literary context for the modern reader. It includes the following:
an introduction
a guide to reading aloud
a chart of royal genealogies
notes on the background of the poem
critical commentary
glosses on the eight most famous passages, for the student who wishes to translate from the original
an extensive bibliography
Leading Beowulf scholar Howell D. Chickering, Jr.’s, fresh and lively translation, featuring the Old English on facing pages, allows the reader to encounter Beowulf as poetry. This edition incorporates recent scholarship and provides historical and literary context for the modern reader. It includes the following:
an introduction
a guide to reading aloud
a chart of royal genealogies
notes on the background of the poem
critical commentary
glosses on the eight most famous passages, for the student who wishes to translate from the original
an extensive bibliography
Customer Reviews of Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: beowulf
Review: I enjoy trying to read Saxon and having his translation to refer to is of great help. I am not sure of some of his translation but it is hard to make sure what you are reading since Saxon was never printed just writen. This a nice printing.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Excellent translation
Review: Although Seamus Heaney's translation is the one getting all the attention, and is very readable, this one is both readable and is a more word-for-word translation. The accompanying chapters on analysis of the poem are also fascinating.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: I wish this version were the accepted standard. . .
Review: This edition is widely accepted as closer to the original than Heaney's, even by people who prefer the Heaney edition.
I am not one of those people. I have read Beowulf in several translations as well as in the original Old English, and this is the version I would recommend. I find it to be faithful, clear, and elegant.
The Heaney Beowulf is a great book for fans of Heaney (I enjoyed it myself in that capacity). The Chickering Beowulf is a great book for fans of Old English literature.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: The essential version
Review: This is the essential version of Beowulf for anyone interested in really understanding the story and its setting. There are other dual-language translations but none that provide the same depth of background in introduction, commentary, and critical notes.
-- Christopher L. Webber, author of "Beyond Beowulf"
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A Great Book
Review: A professional and scholarly translation. Having the Old English on one side and the modern English translation on the other is great. The notes about the style of ancient Germanic poetry, as well as notes about Old English are fascinating. The book is clear enough for beginners, but the extensive commentary (after the poem, and nearly half of the book) means that it is also a great read for experts as well. Altogether, an excellent book.
Review Summary: beowulf
Review: I enjoy trying to read Saxon and having his translation to refer to is of great help. I am not sure of some of his translation but it is hard to make sure what you are reading since Saxon was never printed just writen. This a nice printing.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Excellent translation
Review: Although Seamus Heaney's translation is the one getting all the attention, and is very readable, this one is both readable and is a more word-for-word translation. The accompanying chapters on analysis of the poem are also fascinating.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: I wish this version were the accepted standard. . .
Review: This edition is widely accepted as closer to the original than Heaney's, even by people who prefer the Heaney edition.
I am not one of those people. I have read Beowulf in several translations as well as in the original Old English, and this is the version I would recommend. I find it to be faithful, clear, and elegant.
The Heaney Beowulf is a great book for fans of Heaney (I enjoyed it myself in that capacity). The Chickering Beowulf is a great book for fans of Old English literature.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: The essential version
Review: This is the essential version of Beowulf for anyone interested in really understanding the story and its setting. There are other dual-language translations but none that provide the same depth of background in introduction, commentary, and critical notes.
-- Christopher L. Webber, author of "Beyond Beowulf"
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A Great Book
Review: A professional and scholarly translation. Having the Old English on one side and the modern English translation on the other is great. The notes about the style of ancient Germanic poetry, as well as notes about Old English are fascinating. The book is clear enough for beginners, but the extensive commentary (after the poem, and nearly half of the book) means that it is also a great read for experts as well. Altogether, an excellent book.