Beowulf
ISBN: 9780451527400 | 0451527402
Edition: ReprintFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Signet Classics
Pub. Date: 9/1/1999
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The oldest extant poem in a modern European language chronicles a feudal newly Christianized world still populated by the monsters and demons of the ancient world. Reprint.
| Introduction | p. ix |
| Beowulf | p. 23 |
| Afterword | p. 123 |
| Glossary of Names | p. 149 |
| Genealogies | p. 160 |
| Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved. |
Burton Raffel has taught English, Classics, and Comparative Literature at universities in the United States, Israel, and Canada. His books include translations of Beowulf, Horace: Odes, Epodes, Epistles, Satires, The Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar, From the Vietnamese, Ten Centuries of Poetry, The Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich, Mandelstram (with Alla Burago), and Poems From the Old English and The Annotated Milton; several critical studies, Introduction to Poetry, How to Read a Poem, The Development of Modern Indonesian Poetry, and The Forked Tounge: A Study of the Translation Process; and Mia Poems, a volume of his own poetry. Mr. Raffel practiced law on Wall Street and taught in the Ford Foundation’s English Language Teacher Training Project in Indonesia.
