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Title: Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Norton Critical Editions) by Daniel Donoghue, Seamus Heaney ISBN: 0-393-97580-0 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Heaney is good, but not far superior to everyone else
Comment: I have reviewed over 60 different translations of Beowulf, . . . Although the Seamus Heaney translation is one of the best available, it is not, despite what all of the marketing people would have us believe, far superior to every other translation ever written. There are at least 10 other translations which rank with Seamus Heaney's translation. I would still rank Frederick Rebsamen's translation as superior to Heaney's.
Daniel Donoghue's choice of essays to include in this volume is interesting, in that he includes the 1934 essay by J. R. R. Tolkien "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics", an essay which has already been made available in many other volumes, and the popularity of which, in my view, is now based mostly on nostalgia. Professor Donoghue has neglected to include any of the writings of Professor Kevin S. Kiernan, who has been described by the British Library as "the world's leading authority on the history of the Beowulf manuscript," and who is the world's leading proponent of the theory that the Beowulf manuscript may have been initially composed after 1016.
This book will undoubtedly be very popular, in that it contains the Beowulf translation which most people believe is the best one available, as well as several essays which related directly to the most popular topics for Beowulf essays: women in Beowulf, and Christian themes in Beowulf.
It is a good book, . . . but don't believe the marketing hype that tells you that you shouldn't bother with any other translation. Try Bertha Rogers, or Ruth Lehmann, or Frederick Rebsamen, or John Porter as well.
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Title: Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney ISBN: 0393320979 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Beowulf (Cliffs Notes) by Stanley P. Baldwin, Elaine Strong Skill ISBN: 0764585800 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 30 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Grendel by John Champlin Gardner, Emil Antonucci ISBN: 0679723110 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 May, 1989 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Beowulf: A Prose Translation, Second Edition (Norton Critical Editions) by E. Talbot Donaldson, Nicholas Howe ISBN: 0393974065 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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Title: The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill Coghill ISBN: 0140424385 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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