Howell D. Chickering, Jr., is the G. Armour Craig Professor of Language and Literature at Amherst College. His critical essays, chiefly on medieval English poetry, have appeared in such journals as The Chaucer Review, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, The Kenyon Review, Philological Quarterly, PMLA, Speculum, and Viator.
发表于2025-04-15
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本书是英语世界最古老、最长的一部较完整的文学作品,所以在英语文学中的地位不言而喻。文章虽成书较早,但也已经展现出了作者丰富的想象力,对抗沼泽恶魔,勇斗会喷火的巨龙,格局宏大,所以是一部英雄史诗。但也正因为其最古老的历史地位,而造成了我个人认为的全书...
评分I like this translation a lot. virtually, the modern day English version seems to flow the same way the old English version does. However... the stroyline is too simple, compare to modern myth such lord of the rings or greek myth such as Iliad and Odyssey.
评分I like this translation a lot. virtually, the modern day English version seems to flow the same way the old English version does. However... the stroyline is too simple, compare to modern myth such lord of the rings or greek myth such as Iliad and Odyssey.
评分 评分Beowulf, the oldest British literature ever discovered, is a heroic myth about the legendary experience of the warrior Beowulf. In Beowulf, the joy of success was transient. In the first battle against Grendel, Beowulf took one arm of Grendel and hung it h...
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The first major poem in English literature, Beowulf tells the story of the life and death of the legendary hero Beowulf in his three great battles with supernatural monsters. The ideal Anglo-Saxon warrior-aristocrat, Beowulf is an example of the heroic spirit at its finest.
Leading Beowulf scholar Howell D. Chickering, Jr.’s, fresh and lively translation, featuring the Old English on facing pages, allows the reader to encounter Beowulf as poetry. This edition incorporates recent scholarship and provides historical and literary context for the modern reader. It includes the following:
an introduction
a guide to reading aloud
a chart of royal genealogies
notes on the background of the poem
critical commentary
glosses on the eight most famous passages, for the student who wishes to translate from the original
an extensive bibliography
Transience of all existence(ubi sunt, sympathy for one's enemy), mixture of pagan Germanic and Christian (or at least Old Testament, monotheistic) elements; the Other is within us, altogether an elegy for a HERO. Prof. Rendall as the narrator - https://creativeworks.byu.edu/Chaucer/ViewItem.aspx?id=OR027&language=none&medium=none&keyword=Beowulf
评分翻译总体流畅准确,评注分析详尽。有一些译误是因为原文有争议,还有一些是自己添油加醋。做“外国古代文学”真是开心,羡慕。
评分翻译总体流畅准确,评注分析详尽。有一些译误是因为原文有争议,还有一些是自己添油加醋。做“外国古代文学”真是开心,羡慕。
评分翻译总体流畅准确,评注分析详尽。有一些译误是因为原文有争议,还有一些是自己添油加醋。做“外国古代文学”真是开心,羡慕。
评分翻译总体流畅准确,评注分析详尽。有一些译误是因为原文有争议,还有一些是自己添油加醋。做“外国古代文学”真是开心,羡慕。
Beowulf 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书