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
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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.
評分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...
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...
評分圖書標籤: 詩歌 英國 外國文學 譯文 英國文學 教材 史詩 中世紀
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
Beowulf 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載