Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Norton Critical Editions)
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Product NameBeowulf: A Verse Translation (Norton Critical Editions)
ManufacturerW. W. Norton & Company
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TitleBeowulf: A Verse Translation (Norton Critical Editions)
ISBN0393975800
Author(s)Seamus Heaney, Daniel Donoghue
Release Date2001-12-01, 2001-12
FormatPaperback
Num of Pages256
Num. of Items1
EAN9780393975802
Weight0.7 lbs.
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5 Star Rating  "Beowulf"2009-10-14
- Reviewed By cwsmith1234
O.K. any highbrows should not read this review. I saw the movie Beowulf and at the end I was left hanging so I read the book and it was nothing like the Movie (surprize)But I loved it.
 
5 Star Rating  "The supplements helped me appreciate this classic even more"2009-03-05
- Reviewed By danmarshctr
I am a Beowulf "newbie". I purchased Chickering's translation two and a half weeks ago. I liked the poem so much that I wanted a different translation. I picked Beowulf: A Verse Translation because it was affordable and contained literary crticisms.

This edition is well -worth its money. I read through the supplements, including passages from contemporary Anglo-Saxon works and literary criticisms. (Including Tolkien's famous lecture on the three monsters.) I learned so much about Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, and Celtic culture. (Well, enough to whet my appetite!)

I value Heaney's use of Ulster dialect. Footnotes include the modern English equivalents. The use of the Ulster dialect gives this ancient poem a bit more "ancient" flavor.

Bonus is the wonderful photographs complementing the criticism on Beowulf and archaeology.

 
5 Star Rating  "Sometimes it's good to be critical"2007-02-04
- Reviewed By User: A2REGU8IVAF21W
I had already bought Heaney's "A New Verse Translation" before I needed to buy this edition for a university class. That said, if you're only looking for a translation of the poem with no frills, buy the "New Verse Translation" because it's got the text in parallel with the original Anglo-Saxon. But if you're interested in Beowulf criticism and related anthropology then pick up this edition, because half the book is critical essays, including Tolkein's seminal work.
 
5 Star Rating  "Excellent edition"2006-08-30
- Reviewed By timmynouche
This is a beautiful translation that captures the tone and tenor of Old English. Although it eschews the alliterative line essential to Old English poetry, Heaney's rendering is magically evocative of the somber stoicism and occasionally wry understatement of this seminal poem. The critical commentary provides a nice general scholarly apparatus that helps one contextualize and better appreciate the poem and the achievement of Heaney as a modern day "scop" through whom the original - alas anonymous - poet speaks.
 
3 Star Rating  "They're Right; Heaney's Only Okay"2005-09-02
- Reviewed By chessw
I agree with other member reviewers: Heaney's translation is better than some, but not particularly great. It loses the tone of the original Old English BEOWULF, which is harsh and deliberately choppy and repetitive. Along the same line, Heaney follows the fairly contemptible modern practice of coming up with his own thoroughly informal verse form -- kind of four-beat lines, but not always, often alliterating and often not. This is about the worst choice possible to give the feel of a poem in which alliteration is absolutely mandatory, and heavy syntactical constraints are put on the poet as well. As a result, Heaney ends up way too easygoing and distant, reproducing, but exaggerating, the cool academic intellectualism that mars his own original poetry. The hype around his translation is annoying. Pope, a genuinely great poet, was torn to pieces by critics for not reproducing Homer's tone and manner; the critics are letting Heaney off scott free.
 
4 Star Rating  "Excellent, but stay with Donaldson"2005-07-30
- Reviewed By southshore76
I am a dissenter from the hype surrounding Seamus Heaney's new translation. I prefer Donaldson for two important reasons: the transparency of the translation and the translator's humble willingness to let stand archaic implications that may seem absurb or offensive to most people today.

On a technical level, Donaldson--much more consistently than Heaney--reproduces Old English compounded words and phrases with Modern equivalents. He does this with accuracy and freshness--if not with seamless grace as some readers would prefer. The great advantage of Donaldson's approach is that the reader who does not read OE can at least imagine that she can second-guess the translator, and can feel the raw, rugged texture of the original. Even my 12th grade (inner city high school) students who have bought Heaney's version have become irate at a number of crucial points where the complexity preserved by Donaldson has been eliminated by Heaney.

A second point--or a second way of looking at the same point--concerns interpretation. With all due respect to Heaney, he has an agenda related to the future of the European Union, and I suspect that this motivated or influenced his approach to the translation of Beowulf. Heaney is presenting, via the seminal text of Beowulf, a vision of the origins of European politcs that he believes will ultimately lay a foundation for its future viability and humanity.

Heaney's version is this a much more creative endeavor than was Donaldson's. Where Donaldson allows seeming incoherencies to emerge for the modern reader, Heaney makes things make sense. The main difference here lies in the treatment of the hero. For Heaney, Beowulf is an unambiguous ideal figure. Donaldson, on the other hand, preserves the original ambiguity of a hero who is physically similar to the monsters he fights in his superiority to ordinary men.

There's no translation without interpretation, but there's also a question of degree of control to consider. Heaney's translation falls in line with the unfortunate tradition of Raffel, whose Procrustean approach privileged modern sensibility above everything else. Heaney is much better than Raffel, but Donaldson is one of those rare translations that has and will continue to stand the test of time because he didn't try too hard to be a person of his time.
 
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