Translating Beowulf Modern Versions in English Verse

(A) percipient, absorbing, and eloquent study. SPECULUM (T)his engaging study will be of great interest to scholars, students, and general readers alike. NOTES AND QUERIES This is both a very enjoyable and a very scholarly book. (...) As a sustained exercise in close reading it is exemplary. ENACH Interesting and compelling, this book is essential reading for Beowulf scholars and those with an interest in poetry and translation. ENGLISH While much of this history is known to Anglo-Saxonists, Magennis offers to a broader readership a wide-ranging and lively synthesis of Beowulf scholarship, informed by his own clear enthusiasm for the subject and his authoritative grasp of Old English and Latin. TRANSLATION AND LITERATURE An important study which will interest students of translation and reception theory and initiates and acolytes of Old English literary culture. Highly recommended. CHOICE