Has anyone gotten into the new Seamus Heaney translation of Beowulf? I browsed it briefly; it has olde Englishe and a poetic form. The dry and dusty version I read was trans by David Wright and it is all translation and no poem.
Beowulf or Bay at the Moon
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I don't like it. It's a good poem, but it's a wretched translation of Beowulf. It's riddled with errors, and he's stuck in stuff that's just not in the original.
Well Thank You!
I'll wait for it to show up at the library (the very bad and very good ones get there quickly) for any further perusal. And the not-Wright version that's worth a barter of two ducks?
I'll wait for it to show up at the library (the very bad and very good ones get there quickly) for any further perusal. And the not-Wright version that's worth a barter of two ducks?
There's a decent prose one by E. T. Donaldson and a plain but accurate one with facing page Old English/Anglo-Saxon one from Howell Chickering
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