Suggestions for instructors to accompany The poem: an anthology

Greenfield, Stanley B.

Reference

Appleton, Century, Crofts

A chronologically-organized anthology of British and American poetry with minimal apparatus.

The poem: an anthology

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

The Interpretation of Old English Poems

Routledge& Kegan Paul

A Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature to the End of 1972

Univ of Toronto Pr

A Readable Beowulf: The Old English Epic Newly Translated

Stanley B. Greenfield, one of the world’s foremost Anglo-Saxon scholars, writes of why, after more than thirty years of study, he undertook the Herculean task of rendering Beowulf into contemporary verse: I wanted my translation to be not only faithful to the original but, as the late John Lennon would have put it, A Poem in Its Own Write.’ I wanted it to flow,’ to be easy to read, with the narrative movement of a modern prose story; yet to suggest the rhythmic cadences of the Old English poem. I wanted it both modern and Old English in its reflexes and sensibilities, delighting both the general reader and the Anglo-Saxon specialist. . . . I wanted it to reproduce the intoxication of aural contours which might have pleased and amused warriors over their cups in the Anglo-Saxon mead-hall, or those monks in Anglo-Saxon monasteries who paid more attention to song and to stories of Ingeld than to the lector and the gospels.” Greenfield has succeeded to a remarkable degree in reaching his goals. An early reviewer of the manuscript, Daniel G. Calder of UCLA, wrote: I find it the best translation of Beowulf.One of the great problems with other translations is that they make the reading of Beowulf difficult. Greenfield’s translation speeds along with considerable ease. . . Scholars will find the translation fascinating as an exercise in the successful recreating of various aspects of Old English poetic style.”

History & Criticism

Southern Illinois University Press

Stanley B. Greenfield, one of the world’s foremost Anglo-Saxon scholars, writes of why, after more than thirty years of study, he undertook the Herculean task of rendering Beowulf into contemporary verse: “I wanted my translation to be not only faithful to the original but, as the late John Lennon would have put it, ‘A Poem in Its Own Write.’ I wanted it to ‘flow,’ to be easy to read, with the narrative movement of a modern prose story; yet to suggest the rhythmic cadences of the Old English poem. I wanted it both modern and Old English in its reflexes and sensibilities, delighting both the general reader and the Anglo-Saxon specialist. . . . I wanted it to reproduce the intoxication of aural contours which… might have pleased and amused warriors over their cups in the Anglo-Saxon mead-hall, or those monks in Anglo-Saxon monasteries who paid more attention to song and to stories of Ingeld than to the lector and the gospels.”
Greenfield has succeeded to a remarkable degree in reaching his goals. An early reviewer of the manuscript, Daniel G. Calder of UCLA, wrote: “I find it the best translation of Beowulf.
One of the great problems with other translations is that they make the reading of Beowulf difficult. Greenfield’s translation speeds along with considerable ease. . . Scholars will find the translation fascinating as an exercise in the successful recreating of various aspects of Old English poetic style.”

British & Irish

chapters on ancient/early prose including Alfredian Aelfric Wulfstan, secular heroic poetry, old testament narrative, religious secular poetry, lore and wisom, elegiac poetry.

A Critical History of Old English Literature

New York University Press

Book by Greenfield, Stanley B., Calder, Daniel G.

Calder, Daniel G.

Anglo-Saxon prose and poetry is, without question, the major literary achievement of the early Middle Ages (c. 700-1100). In no other vernacular language does such a vast store of verbal treasures exist for so extended a period of time. For twenty years the definitive guide to that literature has been Stanley B. Greenfield's 1965 Critical History of Old English Literature. Now this classic has been extensively revised and updated to make it more valuable than ever to both the student and scholar.

A New Critical History of Old English Literature

NYU Press

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Suggestions for instructors to accompany The poem: an anthology

The poem: an anthology

The Interpretation of Old English Poems

A Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature to the End of 1972

A Readable Beowulf: The Old English Epic Newly Translated

A Readable Beowulf: The Old English Epic Newly Translated

A Critical History of Old English Literature

A Critical History of Old English Literature

A New Critical History of Old English Literature

A New Critical History of Old English Literature