Excerpt from Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Poem, and the Fight at Finnsburg During the session of 1878 - 79, while reading Beo wulf with a post-graduate class at St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., I made a line-for-line translation of the poem for my own use. In reading the poem I used Grein's text of his separate edition and care fully collated with it the editions of Kemble Thorpe Arnold and Heyne (3d ed., Which last was in the hands of the class. When the publication of this translation was recently suggested and approved by ...
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Excerpt from Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Poem, and the Fight at Finnsburg During the session of 1878 - 79, while reading Beo wulf with a post-graduate class at St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., I made a line-for-line translation of the poem for my own use. In reading the poem I used Grein's text of his separate edition and care fully collated with it the editions of Kemble Thorpe Arnold and Heyne (3d ed., Which last was in the hands of the class. When the publication of this translation was recently suggested and approved by scholars in whom I had confidence, I revised it carefully, and gave it as nearly as possible a rhythmical form, still retaining the line-for-line feature. This in volves naturally much inversion and occasional obscurity, and lacks smoothness; but it seemed to me to give the general reader a better idea of the poem than a mere prose translation would do, in addition to the advantage of literalness. While it would have been easy, by means of periphrasis and freer translation, to mend some of the defects chargeable to the line-for-line form, the trans lation would have lacked literalness, which I regarded as the most important object. I retained Grein's text, but have added Notes giving a translation of the variations in the text of Keyne's fourth edition both on account of its importance as the latest critical text, and the fact that it has just been republished in this country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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