E. Talbot Donaldson (1910–1987)
Auteur van The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Redacteur — 250 exemplaren
Beowulf: A Prose Translation [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (1998) — Vertaler; Medewerker — 137 exemplaren
The Portable Poets of the English Language I : Langland to Spenser (1950) — Redacteur — 120 exemplaren
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 1 (1974) — Redacteur — 20 exemplaren
Beowulf: The Donaldson translation, backgrounds and sources, criticism (A Norton critical edition) 6 exemplaren
Beowulf, Widsith, The Fight at Finnesburg 3 exemplaren
Piers Plowman: An Alliterative Verse Translation 1 exemplaar
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Beowulf: A Prose Translation [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] (1975) — Medewerker; Vertaler — 371 exemplaren
Piers Plowman: The B Version - Will's Visions of Piers Plowman, Do-Well, Do-Better and Do-Best: An Edition in the… (2002) — Redacteur, sommige edities — 9 exemplaren
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- Harvard University (BA|1932)
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- Indiana University
Yale University
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It serves a merit as a historical text.
It's pro-b the first manuscript to surface out of the dark ages where before there was no literacy for at least 600 or more years after ancient Latin became a dead language. Before that the the first known record of literacy was an ancient Greek record or two from around 400BC.
The poem itself is only 50 pages long. As for the story it is one of sorrow, slaughter, nightmare and terror with a strong slant upon death or the burial process. This edition contains seven essays at the back that I found quite practical and which elaborate upon several themes and ideas in the text
If you want to get a start in English I'd pro-b begin further ahead at Geoffery Chaucer from about the 1300's though I'd retain Beowulf for 1 minute in terms of Latin, Greek or Hebrew from their contemporary perspectives
There is one outstanding question as to the dating of the poem but it would appear the existing manuscript was scribed around 1000AD pro-b from a pre-extant copy which is now lost… (meer)