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050 4 _aPR1583
_b.M49 2012
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245 1 0 _aBeowulf: A Translation
_cThomas Meyer.
264 1 _bProject Muse,
264 3 _bProject MUSE,
300 _a1 online resource (297 pages) :
_billustrations
500 _aIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 _aPreface. An experimental poetic adventure / David Hadbawnik -- Introduction. Locating Beowulf / Daniel C. Remein -- Beowulf : a translation.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 _aA stunning experimental translation of the Old English poem "Beowulf," over 30 decades old and woefully neglected, by the contemporary poet Thomas Meyer, who studied with Robert Kelly at Bard, and emerged from the niche of poets who had been impacted by the brief moment of cross-pollination between U.K. and U.S. experimental poetry in the late 1960s and early 1970s, a movement inspired by Ezra Pound, fueled by interactions among figures like Ed Dorn, J.H. Prynne, and Basil Bunting, and quickly overshadowed by the burgeoning Language Writing movement. Meyer's translation -- completed in 1972 but never before published -- is sure to stretch readers' ideas about what is possible in terms of translating Anglo-Saxon poetry, as well as provide new insights on the poem itself. According to John Ashberry, Meyer's translation of this thousand-year-old poem is a "wonder," and Michael Davidson hails it as a "major accomplishment" and a "vivid" recreation of this ancient poem's "modernity."
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aDragons
_vPoetry.
650 0 _aMonsters
_vPoetry.
650 0 _aEpic poetry, English (Old)
651 0 _aScandinavia
_vPoetry.
655 0 _aElectronic books.
655 0 _aPoetry.
_2lcgft
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aMeyer, Thomas,
_d1947-
_etranslator.
710 2 _aProject Muse,
_edistributor.
776 1 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780615612652
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/76422/
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