Old English Poetry: An Anthology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old English Poetry: An Anthology write by R.M. Liuzza. This book was released on 2014-03-26. Old English Poetry: An Anthology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. R.M. Liuzza’s Broadview edition of Beowulf was published at almost exactly the same time as Seamus Heaney’s; in reviewing the two together in July 2000 for The New York Review of Books, Frank Kermode concluded that both translations were superior to their predecessors, and that it was impossible to choose between the two: “the less celebrated translator can be matched with the famous one,” he wrote, and “Liuzza’s book is in some respects more useful than Heaney’s.” Ever since, the Liuzza Beowulf has remained among the top sellers on the Broadview list. With this volume readers will now be able to enjoy a much broader selection of Old English poetry in translations by Liuzza. As the collection demonstrates, the range and diversity of the works that have survived is extraordinary—from heartbreaking sorrow to wide-eyed wonder, from the wisdom of old age to the hot blood of battle, and to the deepest and most poignant loneliness. There is breathless storytelling and ponderous cataloguing; there is fervent religious devotion and playful teasing. The poems translated here are meant to provide a sense of some of this range and diversity; in doing so they also offer significant portions of three of the important manuscripts of Old English poetry—the Vercelli Book, the Junius Manuscript, and the Exeter Book.
An Anthology of Old English Poetry
An Anthology of Old English Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Anthology of Old English Poetry write by Charles William Kennedy. This book was released on 1960. An Anthology of Old English Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Translated into Alliterative Verse
Old English Poetry: An Anthology
Old English Poetry: An Anthology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old English Poetry: An Anthology write by R.M. Liuzza. This book was released on 2014-03-26. Old English Poetry: An Anthology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. R.M. Liuzza’s Broadview edition of Beowulf was published at almost exactly the same time as Seamus Heaney’s; in reviewing the two together in July 2000 for The New York Review of Books, Frank Kermode concluded that both translations were superior to their predecessors, and that it was impossible to choose between the two: “the less celebrated translator can be matched with the famous one,” he wrote, and “Liuzza’s book is in some respects more useful than Heaney’s.” Ever since, the Liuzza Beowulf has remained among the top sellers on the Broadview list. With this volume readers will now be able to enjoy a much broader selection of Old English poetry in translations by Liuzza. As the collection demonstrates, the range and diversity of the works that have survived is extraordinary—from heartbreaking sorrow to wide-eyed wonder, from the wisdom of old age to the hot blood of battle, and to the deepest and most poignant loneliness. There is breathless storytelling and ponderous cataloguing; there is fervent religious devotion and playful teasing. The poems translated here are meant to provide a sense of some of this range and diversity; in doing so they also offer significant portions of three of the important manuscripts of Old English poetry—the Vercelli Book, the Junius Manuscript, and the Exeter Book.
Anglo Saxon Poetry
Anglo Saxon Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anglo Saxon Poetry write by S.A.J. Bradley. This book was released on 2012-04-26. Anglo Saxon Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anglo-saxon poetry was circulated orally in a preliterate society, and gathered at last into books over some six centuries before the Norman Conquest ended English independence. Against the odds some of these books survive today. This anthology of prose translations covers most of the surviving poetry, revealing a tradition which is outstanding among early medieval literatures for its sophisticated exploration of the human condition in a mutable, finite, but wonderfully diverse and meaning-filled world.
Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic, and Anglo-Norman Literatures
Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic, and Anglo-Norman Literatures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic, and Anglo-Norman Literatures write by Richard North. This book was released on 2014-04-23. Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic, and Anglo-Norman Literatures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman Literatures provides a scholarly and accessible introduction to the literature which was the inspiration for many of the heroes of modern popular culture, from The Lord of the Rings to The Chronicles of Narnia, and which set the foundations of the English language and its literature as we know it today. Edited, translated and annotated by the editors of Beowulf & Other Stories, the anthology introduces readers to the rich and varied literature of Britain, Scandinavia and France of the period in and around the Viking Age. Ranging from the Old English epic Beowulf through to the Anglo-Norman texts which heralded the transition Middle English, thematically organised chapters present elegies, eulogies, laments and followed by material on the Viking Wars in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Vikings gods and Icelandic sagas, and a final chapter on early chivalry introduces the new themes and forms which led to Middle English literature, including Arthurian Romances and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Laying out in parallel text format selections from the most important Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman works, this anthology presents translated and annotated texts with useful bibliographic references, prefaced by a headnote providing useful background and explanation.
