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.
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
發表於2025-02-27
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Beowulf是公元10世紀左右用古英語(盎格魯撒剋遜語)書寫的一首長詩,不過詩並不是關於當時的英格蘭人,而是很早以前的日耳曼部落。故事發生公元5世紀左右,多為虛構和神話,也有部分和真實曆史相通的地方,講述的是生活在瑞典南部的濟茲人(Geats)英雄Beowulf的故事,從他早...
評分 評分 評分 評分第一次也估計是我最後一次讀Beowulf是在sophomore的literature movement,當時看到老師發下來那一本薄薄是小冊子還暗中頗為欣喜,不料其中滿滿的古英語和方言使得我那兩個星期都在哀嚎中度過。 Beowulf的故事主綫無非是男主一路打怪升級,從小反派到小反派的媽媽,最後打敗大Bo...
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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
評分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
評分翻譯總體流暢準確,評注分析詳盡。有一些譯誤是因為原文有爭議,還有一些是自己添油加醋。做“外國古代文學”真是開心,羨慕。
評分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
評分翻譯總體流暢準確,評注分析詳盡。有一些譯誤是因為原文有爭議,還有一些是自己添油加醋。做“外國古代文學”真是開心,羨慕。
Beowulf 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載