Beowulf A Verse Translation into Modern English
| Author/creator | Morgan, Edwin Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Manchester : Carcanet Press, Limited Chicago : Independent Publishers Group [Distributor] |
| Description | 128 p. 05.500 x 08.500 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Summary | Annotation "Edwin Morgan's Beowulf has been a popular standard translation for half a century. His version is in a vigorous, spoken English and conveys the heroism, violence and pathos of the first English epic. The poem marks a key moment in Edwin Morgan's development, as he recalls: 'This translation of Beowulf was made in the last years of the 1940s and was published in hardback by the Hand and Flower Press in 1952. In the present Carcanet edition, poem and introduction have been kept the same despite temptations to tinker here and there. The translation, which was begun shortly after I came out of the army at the end of the Second World War, was in a sense my unwritten war poem, and I would not want to alter the expression I gave to its themes of conflict and danger, voyaging and displacement, loyalty and loss. Inter arma musae tacent ("In time of conflict the Muses are silent"), but they are not sleeping.'"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781857545883 |
| ISBN | 1857545885 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9781857545883 |
| Stock number | 00111259 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |