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Composición escrita en un ejempla 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
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- Contained in
- El Otro, El Mismo (a section in the book Obra poética, 1923-1964), by Jorge Luis Borges
- Location Details
- Page 243
- City
- Buenos Aires
- Publisher
- Emecé Editores
- Date
- 1964
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- Relationships
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Collocates with -> Fragmento, Borges, Jorge Luis (1964)(Upstream) Revises -> Composición escrita en un ejemplar de la gesta de Bowulf, Borges, Jorge Luis (1961)(Downstream) Translated as -> Written in a Copy of the Geste of Beowulf, Borges, Jorge Luis (1993)(Downstream) Reproduced in new context as -> Composición escrita en un ejemplar de la gesta de Beowulf, Borges, Jorge Luis (1996)(Downstream) Reproduced in new context as -> Composición escrita en un ejemplar de la gesta de Beowulf, Borges, Jorge Luis (1972)
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- Descriptive Notes
A sonnet about the choice to study Old English as loss of sight progresses. "Bowulf" in the title as originally printed (1961) is corrected to "Beowulf" here, and this text is the basis of subsequent appearances.
The poem 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. (243)And ends:
Más allá de este afán y de este verso
Me aguarda inagotable el universo. (243)- Scholarship
• M. J. Toswell, Borges the Unacknowledged Medievalist: Old English and Old Norse in His Life and Work (New York: Palgrave, 2014), 35.
- Notes on Prior Documentation
This poem not in MO1 or GR. This version (with corrected title) not in Fry or MO2.
- Authentication
BAM.
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- Last Updated
- 03/31/2022