Selections from the Verse-Translations of Beowulf
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- Genre/Type Descriptor(s)
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Translation from Old English
Anthology - Language(s)
- English
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- Compiling Editor
- Cook, Albert S.
- Compiling Editor
- Tinker, Chauncey Brewster
- Translator
- Wackerbarth, A. Diedrich
- Translator
- Hall, John Lesslie
- Translator
- Lumsden, H. W.
- Translator
- Garnett, James M.
- Translator
- Morris, William
- Translator
- Wyatt, A. J.
- Translator
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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- Contained in
- Select Translations from Old English Poetry, ed. Albert S. Cook and Chaucey B. Tinker
- Location Details
- Pages 175-77
- City
- Boston
- Publisher
- Ginn & Company
- Date
- 1902
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- Relationships
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(Upstream) Extracts from and recontextualizes -> Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Poem, and The Fight at Finnsburg, Garnett, James M. (1882)(Upstream) Extracts from and recontextualizes -> Beowulf: An Epic Poem, Wackerbarth, A. Diedrich (1849)(Upstream) Extracts from and recontextualizes -> [Beowulf summary and translation sample], Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1838)(Upstream) Extracts from and recontextualizes -> Beowulf: An Old English Poem Translated into Modern Rhymes, Lumsden, H. W. (1883)(Upstream) Extracts from and recontextualizes -> The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats, Morris, William (1895)(Upstream) Extracts from and recontextualizes -> Beowulf, an Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem, Hall, John Lesslie (1892)
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- Descriptive Notes
Book is xi + 195 pp. The book's main content—a collection of translations of Old English poetry by various translators—is preceded by a preface by Cook (iii-viii) and is followed by a select bibliography (172-73), the appendix described below giving samples of prior Beowulf translations (175-77), and several other short appendices and indexes (178-95).
This appendix collects short segments (ranging from 5 to 15 lines) of Beowulf translation by Wackerbarth, J. Lesslie Hall, Lumsden, Garnett, Morris and Wyatt, and Longfellow. It is presented not as a paratext to the longer Beowulf extracts by Tinker given earlier in the anthology (see separate entry), but as a separate contribution to this book to indicate various poetic styles that have been attempted by translators, and so has its own database entry.
All of these extracts other than Longfellow's represent lines 2913-20 of the Old English. For Longfellow, Cook and Tinker give his rendering of lines 217-24a.
- Authentication
BAM.
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- Last Updated
- 07/25/2024