Composición escrita en un ejemplar de la gesta de Beowulf
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- Genre/Type Descriptor(s)
- Poem or Poetry
- Language(s)
- Spanish
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- Author
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- 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 154
- City
- [New York]
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
- Date
- 1972
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- Relationships
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Collocates with -> Fragment, Borges, Jorge Luis (1972)Collocates with -> Fragmento, Borges, Jorge Luis (1972)Collocates with -> Poem Written in a Copy of Beowulf, Borges, Jorge Luis (1972)(Upstream) Reproduces in new context -> Composición escrita en un ejempla de la gesta de Beowulf, Borges, Jorge Luis (1964)(Downstream) Reformatted and recontextualized as -> Composición escrita en un ejemplar de la gesta de Beowulf, Borges, Jorge Luis (1974)
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- Descriptive Notes
Book is xxxi + 329 pp. A 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.
The text of "Composición escrita en un ejemplar de la gesta de Beowulf" begins:
A veces me pregunto qué razones
Me mueven a estudiar sin esperanza
De precisión, mientras mi noche avanza,
La lengua de los ásperos sajones. (154)And it ends:
Más allá de este afán y de este verso
Me aguarda inagotable el universo. (154)- Notes on Prior Documentation
The poem's appearance in this collection not in MO1, GR, or MO2. (The poem's original publication is listed as Fry 172 and MO2 1961(b).)
- Authentication
BAM.
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- Last Updated
- 03/30/2022