
This new poetic translation brings the earliest extant English poem closer to the modern reader. Kennedy offers a translation in alliterative verse, based on Klaeber's text, of the Old English Beowulf, and provides a brief critical introduction which reviews literary and cultural discussions of the poem.
Page Count:
192
Publication Date:
1978-10-19
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0195024354
ISBN-13:
9780195024357
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