Fragment
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- Genre/Type Descriptor(s)
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Poem or Poetry
Translation of Other - Language(s)
- English
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- Author
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- Translator
- di Giovanni, Norman Thomas
- Compiling Editor
- di Giovanni, Norman Thomas
- Writer of Prefatory Matter
- Borges, Jorge Luis
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- Contained in
- Jorge Luis Borges: Selected Poems, 1923-1967, ed. Norman Thomas di Giovanni
- Location Details
- Page 159
- City
- [New York]
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
- Date
- 1972
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- Relationships
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Collocates with -> Poem Written in a Copy of Beowulf, Borges, Jorge Luis (1972)Collocates with -> Composición escrita en un ejemplar de la gesta de Beowulf, Borges, Jorge Luis (1972)Collocates with -> Fragmento, Borges, Jorge Luis (1972)(Upstream) Translates -> Fragmento, Borges, Jorge Luis (1964)(Downstream) Reformatted and recontextualized as -> Fragment, Borges, Jorge Luis (1974)
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- Descriptive Notes
Book is xxxi + 329 pp. A translation from Spanish of Borges, "Fragmento," in this bilingual collection of Borges' poems from several previous books, with English versions facing the Spanish originals, provided by a dozen different translators. The main contents are preceded by a Foreword by Borges (xv-xvi) and an Introduction by di Giovanni (xvii-xxviii). The volume contains translations of most other poems written by Borges around the same time that engage with Old English literature or early English history.
"Fragment" begins:
A sword.
An iron sword hammered out in the cold of dawn,
A sword carved with runes
That no one will overlook, that no one will interpret in full. (159)And ends:
A sword to fit the hand
That will gain a kingdom and lose a kingdom,
A sword to fit the hand
That will bring down the forest of spears.
A sword to fit the hand of Beowulf. (159)- Notes on Prior Documentation
Not in MO1, GR, or MO2.
- Authentication
BAM.
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- Last Updated
- 04/05/2022