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Written in a Copy of the Geste of Beowulf
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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
- Barnes, R. G.
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- Serial Title
- Poetry
- Location Details
- Volume 162, number 3 (June 1993), page 159
- Date
- 1993
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- Relationships
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(Upstream) Translates -> Composición escrita en un ejempla de la gesta de Beowulf, Borges, Jorge Luis (1964)
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- Descriptive Notes
A sonnet in half-rhyme, translating Borges' sonnet "Composición escrita en un ejemplar de la gesta de B[e]owulf." The poem begins:
I ask myself from time to time what reasons
Move me to study, as my night comes on
And with no hope of mastery or precision,
The language of the harsh Angles and Saxons.And ends:
Beyond this arduous task, beyond this verse
Waits, inexhaustible, the universe.- Notes on Prior Documentation
Not in MO2.
- Authentication
BAM.
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- Last Updated
- 03/30/2022