{"product_id":"a-readable-beowulf-stanley-b-greenfield-9780809310609","title":"A Readable Beowulf: The Old English Epic Newly Translated","description":"\u003cp\u003eStanley B. Greenfield, one of the world's foremost Anglo-Saxon scholars, writes of why, after more than thirty years of study, he undertook the Herculean task of rendering \u003ci\u003eBeowulf \u003c\/i\u003einto con­temporary verse: \"I wanted my translation to be not only faith­ful to the original but, as the late John Lennon would have put it, 'A Poem in Its Own Write.' I wanted it to 'flow, ' to be easy to read, with the narrative movement of a modern prose story; yet to suggest the rhythmic cadences of the Old English poem. I wanted it both modern and Old English in its reflexes and sen­sibilities, delighting both the general reader and the Anglo-Saxon specialist. . . . I wanted it to reproduce the intoxication of aural contours which... might have pleased and amused war­riors over their cups in the Anglo-Saxon mead-hall, or those monks in Anglo-Saxon monasteries who paid more attention to song and to stories of Ingeld than to the \u003ci\u003elector \u003c\/i\u003eand the gospels.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreenfield has succeeded to a remarkable degree in reaching his goals. An early reviewer of the manuscript, Daniel G. Calder of UCLA, wrote: \"I find it the best translation of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the great problems with other translations is that they make the reading of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf \u003c\/i\u003edifficult. Greenfield's translation speeds along with considerable ease. . . Scholars will find the translation fascinating as an exercise in the successful recreat­ing of various aspects of Old English poetic style.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanley B. Greenfield\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0809310600\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780809310609\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Southern Illinois University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/03\/1982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.58h x 6.92w x 0.50d","brand":"Stanley B. Greenfield","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086899851519,"sku":"9780809310609","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_84792989-af36-4dc0-8a79-9cf63e2f3e18.jpg?v=1769097210","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-readable-beowulf-stanley-b-greenfield-9780809310609","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}