Beowulf: A Translation And Commentary Together With Sellic Spell J R Tolkien Harpercollins Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Modern

The Translation Of Beowulf By J R Tolkien Was An Early Work Very Distinctive In Its Mode Completed 1926: He Returned To It Later Make Hasty Corrections But Seems Never Have Considered Publication This Edition Is Twofold For There Exists Illuminating Commentary On Text Poem Translator Himself Written Form A Series Lectures Given At Oxford 1930S And From These Substantial Selection Has Been Made Also Book His Creative Attention Detail Arises Sense Immediacy Clarity Vision As If Entered Into Imagined Past: Standing Beside Men Shaking Out Their Mail-Shirts They Beached Ship Coast Denmark Listening Rising Anger Taunting Unferth Or Looking Up Amazement Grendel’s Terrible Hand Set Under Roof Heorot Includes Much Those Which While Always Anchored Expressed Wider Perceptions Looks Closely Dragon That Would Slay ‘Snuffling Baffled Rage Injured Greed When Discovers Theft Cup’ Rebuts Notion ‘A Mere Treasure Story’ ‘Just Another Tale’ Turns Lines Tell Burying Golden Things Long Ago Observes ‘The Feeling Itself Sad History’ Raises Level Whole Thing Sombre Tragic Sinister Curiously Real “Treasure” Not Just Some Lucky Wealth Will Enable Finder Good Time Marry Princess Laden With History Leading Back Dark Heathen Ages Beyond Memory Song Reach Imagination ’ Sellic Spell ‘Marvellous Story Suggesting What Might Style Old English Folk-Tale No Association ‘Historical Legends’ Northern Kingdoms Σελίδες: 448 Διαστάσεις: 14 9X14 9Cm