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Beowulf, by Edwin Morgan

Language

eng

Abstract

Edwin Morgan's Beowulf has been a popular standard translation for half a century. His version is a vigorous, spoken English and conveys the heroism, violence and pathos of the first English epic. The poem marks a key moment in Edwin Morgan's development, as he recalls: 'This translation of Beowulf was made in the last years of the 1940s and was published in hardback by the Hand and Flower Press in 1952. In the present Carcanet edition, poem and introduction have been kept the same despite temptations to tinker here and there. The translation which was begun shortly after I came out of the army at the end of the Second World War, was in a sense my unwritten war poem, and I would not want to alter the expression I gave to its themes of conflict and danger, voyaging and displacement, loyalty and loss. Inter arma musae tacent ("In the time of conflict the Muses are silent"), but they are not sleeping.'

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Beowulf

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

606941311

Responsibility statement

by Edwin Morgan

Table Of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- NOTE ON TEXT -- BEOWULF -- GLOSSARY OF PROPER NAMES -- About the Author -- Also by Edwin Morgan from Carcanet -- Copyright

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