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'Beowulf'
Comparison Essay # 72358
'Beowulf'
This paper compares Seamus Heaney's translation of 'Beowulf' to two other translations of the epic poem.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages) |
4 sources |
APA | 2004
Paper Summary:
In this article, the writer compares Seamus Heaney's translation of 'Beowulf' to two other translations of the epic poem. The writer discusses what makes some translations unreadable. Further, the writer discusses the use of modern language to make sense of the poem to contemporary readers.From the Paper:
"Michael Alexander has identified 'Beowulf' as the first substantial work in English and pointed out that it has both a severe artistic dignity and a penetrating understanding of human life. This long poem has been translated by any number of individuals beginning with Alfred Lord Tennyson and continuing through the translation by Seamus Heaney. Heaney was initially commissioned by the W. W. Norton Publishing Company to represent this famous Old English poem to undergraduates in a free standing and relatively faithful translation that would also appear in an ... "More papers on 'Beowulf':
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'Beowulf' (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 10, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Comparison-Essay-'Beowulf'/72358
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"'Beowulf'" 15 January 2012. Web. 10 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Comparison-Essay-'Beowulf'/72358>
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