New PDF release: Saint Aldhelm's 'Riddles'

By Saint Aldhelm,A.M. Juster

ISBN-10: 1442628928

ISBN-13: 9781442628922

ISBN-10: 1442637420

ISBN-13: 9781442637429

The first and one of many most interesting Latin poets of Anglo-Saxon England, the seventh-century bishop Saint Aldhelm can justly be referred to as “Britain’s first guy of letters.” between his many influential poetic texts have been the hundred riddles that made up his Aenigmata. In Saint Aldhelm’s Riddles, A.M. Juster deals the 1st verse translation of this article in virtually a century, taking pictures the wit, heat, and sweetness of the 1st English riddle collection.

One of today’s best formalist poets, A.M. Juster brings an identical beautiful care to this quantity as to his translations of Horace (“The most sensible version on hand of the Satires in English” –Choice), Tibullus (“An very good new translation” –The Guardian), and Petrarch. Juster’s translation is complemented through a newly edited model of the Latin textual content and through the 1st scholarly observation at the Aenigmata, the results of exhaustive interdisciplinary learn into the text’s historic, literary, and philological context. Saint Aldhelm’s Riddles could be crucial for students and a treasure for fanatics of Tolkien, Beowulf, and Harry Potter.

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