{"product_id":"9780809310609","title":"A Readable Beowulf: The Old English Epic Newly Translated","description":"\u003cp\u003eStanley B. Greenfield, one of the world’s foremost Anglo-Saxon scholars, writes of why, after more than thirty years of study, he undertook the Herculean task of rendering \u003ci\u003eBeowulf \u003c\/i\u003einto con­temporary verse: “I wanted my translation to be not only faith­ful to the original but, as the late John Lennon would have put it, ‘A Poem in Its Own Write.’ I wanted it to ‘flow,’ to be easy to read, with the narrative movement of a modern prose story; yet to suggest the rhythmic cadences of the Old English poem. I wanted it both modern and Old English in its reflexes and sen­sibilities, delighting both the general reader and the Anglo-Saxon specialist. . . . I wanted it to reproduce the intoxication of aural contours which… might have pleased and amused war­riors over their cups in the Anglo-Saxon mead-hall, or those monks in Anglo-Saxon monasteries who paid more attention to song and to stories of Ingeld than to the \u003ci\u003elector \u003c\/i\u003eand the gospels.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreenfield has succeeded to a remarkable degree in reaching his goals. An early reviewer of the manuscript, Daniel G. Calder of UCLA, wrote: “I find it the best translation of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the great problems with other translations is that they make the reading of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf \u003c\/i\u003edifficult. Greenfield’s translation speeds along with considerable ease. . . Scholars will find the translation fascinating as an exercise in the successful recreat­ing of various aspects of Old English poetic style.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007859441904,"sku":"9780809310609","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780809310609_p0.jpg?v=1763739538","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780809310609","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}