Seamus (Solist) Heaney

The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation

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Encompassing a wide range of voices-from weary sailors to forlorn wives, from heroic saints to drunken louts, from farmers hoping to improve their fields to sermonizers looking to save your soul-the 123 poems collected in The Word Exchange complement the portrait of medieval England that emerges from Beowulf, the most famous Anglo-Saxon poem of all. Offered here are tales of battle, travel, and adventure, but also songs of heartache and longing, pearls of lusty innuendo and clear-eyed stoicism, charms and spells for everyday use, and seven hoards of delightfully puzzling riddles.Featuring all-new translations by seventy-four of our most celeb… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Delanty, Greg (Hrsg.) / Matto, Michael (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-393-07901-2
EAN: 9780393079012
Produktnummer: 7275001
Verlag: W W Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 557 S.
Masse: H24.2 cm x B16.4 cm x D3.9 cm 921 g
Gewicht: 921

Über den Autor

Greg Delanty is an artist-in-residence at Saint Michael's College. He lives in Burlington, Vermont. Michael Matto is an associate professor of English at Adelphi University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) was an Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer and recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born at Mossbawn farmhouse between Castledawson and Toomebridge, County Derry, he resided in Dublin until his death.