Beowulf : the oldest English epic / translated into alliterative verse with a critical introduction by Charles W. Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kennedy, Charles W. (Charles William), 1882-1969, translator.

Standardized Title:

Beowulf. English (Swanton)

Language:

English

English, Old (ca. 450-1100)

Physical Description:

lxv, 121 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1978, c1968.

Summary:

This unique poetic rendering, available for the first time in a paperback edition, brings the experience of this earliest extant English poem closer to the modern reader. It uses the four-beat alliterative measure without attempting to reproduce the conventional Old English half-line. Consonance and assonance have also been freely used to retain the stylistic feeling of the original while keeping the language readable and contemporary.

Notes:

Includes glossary of proper names.

Bibliography: pages [105]-111.

ISBN:

0195024354

OCLC:

59174466