A Choice Of Anglo Saxon Verse

Author : Richard Hamer
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571262589
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse written by Richard Hamer and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse contains the Old English texts of all the major short poems, such as 'The Battle of Maldon', 'The Dream of the Rood', 'The Wanderer' and 'The Seafarer', as well as a generous representation of the many important fragments, riddles and gnomic verses that survive from the seventh to the twelfth centuries, with facing-page verse translations. These poems are the well-spring of the English poetic tradition, and this anthology provides a unique window into the mind and culture of the Anglo-Saxons. The volume is an essential companion to Faber's edition of Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney.

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ISBN 13 : 9780391024526
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Author : Richard Hamer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 207 pages
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Download or read book ˜Aœ choice of Anglo-Saxon verse written by Richard Hamer and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Frederick Sanger Hamer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 207 pages
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Download or read book A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse written by Richard Frederick Sanger Hamer and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Donoghue
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812249941
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How the Anglo-Saxons Read Their Poems written by Daniel Donoghue and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Donoghue shows how the earliest readers of Old English poems deployed a unique set of skills that enabled them to navigate a daunting task with apparent ease.

Author : Graham Holderness
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 0746309147
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Verse written by Graham Holderness and published by Northcote House Pub Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost everything of interest in Anglo-Saxon history is recorded in the poetry of the period: the historical and political, moral and ethical, theological and ecclesiastical, military and constitutional motives and preoccupations of that past culture are there to be read at the level of individual perception and personal experience. In this study Graham Holderness brings these Old English texts and the culture they embody within the reach of the general reader by providing powerful new translations of heroic, elegiac, religious and love verses, translations which span the corpus from Beowulf to The Wife's Lament and bridge the gap between the unfamiliar language of their original composition and the modern English in which they are subsequently discussed and lucidly explained. As a general introduction to the subject this book opens up the language, literature and life of Anglo-Saxon England to the non-specialist, ending with a line by line, sample translation and detailed annotation as an impetus t

Author : Richard Hamer
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571352170
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beowulf written by Richard Hamer and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf tells the story of the hero's slaying of three fabulous monsters, set against the historical background of sixth-century Scandinavian wars and dynasties. Its alliterative and metrical rules are complex, and many previous translators have attempted to replicate them. Here, blank verse has been used, as being more suitable for the less inflected and freer syntax of modern English, and therefore offering a more familiar and neutral form - less likely to distract from the interest and subtleties of the poem. Staying close to the original throughout, Richard Hamer's translation is ideal for contemporary readers to fully enjoy this early masterpiece.

Author : Greg Delanty
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393079015
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation written by Greg Delanty and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dazzling variety of Anglo-Saxon poetry brought to life by an all-star cast of contemporary poets in an authoritative bilingual edition. Encompassing a wide range of voices-from weary sailors to forlorn wives, from heroic saints to drunken louts, from farmers hoping to improve their fields to sermonizers looking to save your soul—the 123 poems collected in The Word Exchange complement the portrait of medieval England that emerges from Beowulf, the most famous Anglo-Saxon poem of all. Offered here are tales of battle, travel, and adventure, but also songs of heartache and longing, pearls of lusty innuendo and clear-eyed stoicism, charms and spells for everyday use, and seven "hoards" of delightfully puzzling riddles. Featuring all-new translations by seventy-four of our most celebrated poets—including Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Billy Collins, Eavan Boland, Paul Muldoon, Robert Hass, Gary Soto, Jane Hirshfield, David Ferry, Molly Peacock, Yusef Komunyakaa, Richard Wilbur, and many others—The Word Exchange is a landmark work of translation, as fascinating and multivocal as the original literature it translates.

Author : Walter John Sedgefield
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Anglo-Saxon verse-book written by Walter John Sedgefield and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lavinia Greenlaw
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312428372
Total Pages : 228 pages
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Download or read book The Importance of Music to Girls written by Lavinia Greenlaw and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Greenlaw, music--from bubblegum pop to classical piano to the passionate catharsis of punk rock--is at first the key to being a girl and then the means of escape. She has written a razor-sharp remembrance of adolescence, filtered through the art that strikes at the most visceral level.