Beowulf: A New Translation for Oral Delivery (Hackett - download pdf or read online

By Dick Ringler

ISBN-10: 0872208931

ISBN-13: 9780872208933

ISBN-10: 087220894X

ISBN-13: 9780872208940

Dick Ringler's deceptively uncomplicated translation captures the rhythm, circulation, and tool of the unique previous English poem whereas utilizing a fluid sleek English type and a comparatively spare vocabulary. His beneficiant advent, a full of life but masterly advisor to the paintings, with his translations of 3 shorter outdated English poems elucidate a huge English textual content virtually as famous for its subtlety and intricacy because it is for its monsters and heroes.

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