Beowulf (2011)
“I have not tried to compete with them. This is an interpretation, not a translation. Myth seems to me to have a peculiar importance for children, as for poets: it lives in them. I have tried to have this telling as a living thing. In sticking to the text of the original epic, it may be loose. In sticking to the root-meaning of that poem, I hope that it is tight. There are many Englishings of the text. I worked with Kemble (1837), the first, through Thorpe, Grein, Wyatt, Earle, and Clark-Hall, d...own to the very fine recent edition of Klaeber (1951) and Wrenn (1958). Often I consulted in order to go somewhere else. The somewhere else I wanted to go was back and in.
One retells old myths and legends hoping to be rewarded with the discovery that their meaning is still very much alive and creative. I feel in writing this that I discovered something about Beowulf. I hope that the reader will find what I found and enjoy it. To me, it is an essential story, and therefore never to be fixed.MoreLess
One retells old myths and legends hoping to be rewarded with the discovery that their meaning is still very much alive and creative. I feel in writing this that I discovered something about Beowulf. I hope that the reader will find what I found and enjoy it. To me, it is an essential story, and therefore never to be fixed.MoreLess
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