Daniel Donoghue
Auteur van Beowulf: A Verse Translation [Norton Critical Edition]
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Beowulf: A Verse Translation [Norton Critical Edition] (2002) — Medewerker; Redacteur — 886 exemplaren
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The power of Beowulf is not in the story itself, though it is a compelling and very human one; nor has it because the poem is a curiosity piece. Beowulf is important because it tells us so much about how people over a thousand years ago saw the world, and represented the essential struggles - both the heroic and the doomed - of life. And for us to realise that they are no different from our view of life. This is not a poem about a hero; it is about the what moves the world and what we face to withstand it - and that we may be often fallible, and frequently frail, but such things do not define us.
I studied Beowulf in the original language as part of my Old English course at University and got far less out of a rather intense study of it than I got from a single reading of this translation.
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