The Complete Old English Poems (The Middle Ages Series),Used

The Complete Old English Poems (The Middle Ages Series),Used

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From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasurehoarding dragon, from the heartrending lament of a lone castaway to the embodied speech of the cross upon which Christ was crucified, from the anxiety of Eve, who carries 'a sumptuous secret in her hands / And a tempting truth hidden in her heart,' to the trust of Noah who builds 'a seafloater, a wavewalking / Oceanhome with rooms for all creatures,' the world of the AngloSaxon poets is a place of harshness, beauty, and wonder.Now for the first time, the entire Old English poetic corpusincluding poems and fragments discovered only within the past fifty yearsis rendered into modern strongstress, alliterative verse in a masterful translation by Craig Williamson.Accompanied by an introduction by noted medievalist Tom Shippey on the literary scope and vision of these timeless poems and Williamson's own introductions to the individual works and his essay on translating Old English poetry, the texts transport us back to the medieval scriptorium or ancient meadhall, to share a herdsman's recounting of the story of the world's creation or a people's sorrow at the death of a beloved king, to be present at the clash of battle or to puzzle over the sacred and profane answers to riddles posed over a thousand years ago. This is poetry as stunning in its vitality as it is true to its sources. Were Williamson's idiom not so modern, we might think that the AngloSaxon poets had taken up the lyre again and begun to sing once more.

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