Beowulf (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Morgan, Edwin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Edwin Morgan's Beowulf has been a popular standard translation for half a century. His version is a vigorous, spoken English and conveys the heroism, violence and pathos of the first English epic. The poem marks a key moment in Edwin Morgan's development, as he recalls: 'This translation of Beowulf was made in the last years of the 1940s and was published in hardback by the Hand and Flower Press in 1952. In the present Carcanet edition, poem and introduction have been kept the same despite temptations to tinker here and there. The translation which was begun shortly after I came out of the army at the end of the Second World War, was in a sense my unwritten war poem, and I would not want to alter the expression I gave to its themes of conflict and danger, voyaging and displacement, loyalty and loss. Inter arma musae tacent ("In the time of conflict the Muses are silent"), but they are not sleeping.' Edwin Morgan is a major translator. In 2011 he was awarded the Weidenfeld Translation Prize for his version of Racine, Phaedra. His Carcanet titles include his Collected Translations (1996).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Carcanet Poetry
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847776044
• Artikelnr.: 38355282

Autorenporträt

Edwin Morgan, retired professor emeritus at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, was Glasgow's first poet laureate in 1999. Winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2000, and the 2001 Weidenfeld Translation Prize, he is the author of Collected Poems, Crossing the Border: Essays, Virtual and Other Realities, a translation into Scots of Rostand's Cyrano, and Collected Translations.