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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本書是英語世界最古老、最長的一部較完整的文學作品,所以在英語文學中的地位不言而喻。文章雖成書較早,但也已經展現齣瞭作者豐富的想象力,對抗沼澤惡魔,勇鬥會噴火的巨龍,格局宏大,所以是一部英雄史詩。但也正因為其最古老的曆史地位,而造成瞭我個人認為的全書...
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.
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
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
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