| 1. |  | Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Customer Review:
Seamus Heaney's brilliant contribution to literature makes the epic poem accessible without sacrificing its power or poetry. A `must read' which deserves many more than the 5 stars I was able to assign. | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Norton Critical Editions)
from W. W. Norton
Price: $11.14
Customer Review:
I had already bought Heaney's "A New Verse Translation" before I needed to buy this edition for a university class. That said, if you're only looking for a translation of the poem with no frills, buy the "New Verse Translation" because it's got the text in parallel with the original Anglo-Saxon. But... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | Beowulf (Broadview Literary Texts Series)
from Broadview Press
Price: $12.55
Customer Review:
I'm really pleased with my purchase of this Beowulf translation. Its flowing language makes it a pleasure to read, while also providing an accurate and academic translation. It makes translating from the original a much easier process. | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology (The World's Classics)
from Oxford University Press, USA
Customer Review:
The commentary for each selection is informative and clear, and the translations are lucid and lively reading. A complete version of Beowulf is here along with the Anglo-Saxon Elegies and bits of Venerable Bede, Pope Gregory, a story of Caedmon's conversion, and other hallowed texts. I wish this... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | A Guide to Old English, Sixth Edition
from Wiley-Blackwell
Price: $37.75
Customer Review:
This is probably the best grammar of Old English in current circulation (unless you can somehow get your hands on a copy of Bright's). Don't waste your time trying to find another one. It clearly arranges each section and provides a preface/introduction to each element of grammar. My only complaint... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Penguin Classics)
from Penguin Classics
Customer Review:
Beowulf is the most important traditional epic in the Old English language and, I would argue, the most important piece of ancient literature to read in English. It preserves the rich oral traditions from which it arose in all of its glory and is more accessible in this regard than the Homeric epics... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | Beowulf (Signet Classics) (Old_english Edition)
from Signet Classics
Customer Review:
This book is absolutely terrible! Everyone's grandmother would be ashamed to know the language they use. It seems like a rated r book. A very disgusting read, so much talk about this person named Grendel who is portrayed as a cannibal. There is so much talk about blood and bones, ugh! Save yourself... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 8. | ![]() | Anglo-Saxon Poetry (Everyman's Library (Paper))
from Everymans Library
Customer Review:
Bradley's collection of translated Anglo-Saxon Poetry has (it seems to me) one thing going for it. First, the sheer amount of Old English poetry which is presented here is huge, nearly twice as much as is presented in Kevin Crossley-Holland's "The Anglo-Saxon World".
Many of the poems are hard... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | Beowulf: A Prose Translation, Second Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
from W. W. Norton
Price: $9.40
Customer Review:
A very useful book on a cult poem in English literature, maybe the founding poem of English literature. The translation of the Anglosaxon text is altogether good because nearly word for word. Yet it contains some imperfections, or some untranslatable - and improperly rendered - elements. For example... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 10. | ![]() | An Invitation to Old English and Anglo-Saxon England
from Blackwell Publishers
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I really like the idea behind this textbook. Bruce Mitchell, the foremost pedagogue of Old English, has written some very serious textbooks that push students very hard and assume a familiarity with Latin and Greek and access to a university library full of other resources. But with AN INVITATION TO... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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