Beowulf: The Oldest English Epic; Translated into alliterative verse with a Critical Introduction
Author
Original Work
Translator
Foreword / Afterword
Charles W. Kennedy
Language
Year
1978
Publisher
Country
United States
Pages
121
ISBN
9780195024357
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.— Google Books
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