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Anonymous Tue Mar 9 03:10:14 2021 No.17735139 [Reply] [Original]

Is there an edition of Beowulf with the original text to the side and a translation that's both accurate to the original and enjoyable to read?
Pic related (not Beowulf, but a translation of Old English poetry)

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 9 06:38:12 2021 No.17735982 bump

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 9 06:47:46 2021 No.17736035 >>17735139 where's the poetry from?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 9 07:05:56 2021 No.17736115 File: 159 KB, 736x1070, seamus.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17735139 I enjoyed ISBN 9780393320978, not sure the accuracy of it though

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 9 10:11:17 2021 No.17737075 >>17735139 you can make one yourself, just use LaTeX. >>17736035 It's The Ruin, i believe

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 9 10:18:16 2021 No.17737107 File: 151 KB, 1250x835, IMG_0018.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17735139 yeah there are probably several. example, the folio society edition, pic related

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 9 10:20:41 2021 No.17737122 Yes, this is called a facing page translation, I intend to buy the Liuzza one at some point 978-1554811137

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 9 10:45:16 2021 No.17737234 >>17735139 What's the poem? It's good af

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 9 13:32:54 2021 No.17738459 >>17736035 >>17737234 Can confirm, this poetry is The Ruin, just not a very popular mainstream translation of it as far as I can tell. OP may prove me wrong though

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 9 13:38:49 2021 No.17738513 File: 39 KB, 326x499, 51IYuKLQ9TL._SX324_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17737234 >>17738459 Seems to be Michael Garland's translation from pic related.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 9 13:40:13 2021 No.17738522 >>17738513 Derp, I mean Michael Alexander. Michael Garland writes childrens books about talking cars.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 9 13:42:18 2021 No.17738536 >>17738522 nonsense, we must feel euphoria for the talking cars of olden days

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 9 13:43:20 2021 No.17738541 File: 7 KB, 225x225, smart.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17738513 epic, but it's penguin

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 9 14:34:42 2021 No.17739000 Yes — read the Harvard University Press edition.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 9 15:13:44 2021 No.17739321 >>17735139 There's the Broadview Editions of Liuzza's translation

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