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Beowulf

Beowulf Poet

Start date: April 1, 2015

Finish date: April 30, 2015

Discussion: Old School Classics, Pre-1915

Why we're reading this: April 2015 Old School Classics Group Read
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Mar 03, 2018 Peter rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, favorites, myths-legends, reviewed-sort-of, read-2018

This (Gummere) is my favourite of the 3 translations I've read. Read the Heaney translation in school and hated it, then read what I'm pretty sure was the Alexander translation some years later, and thought it was pretty good.

Gummere's translation is the most alliterative of the three, and once I got used to it I loved it. ...more

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Oct 13, 2010 Adam rated it liked it · review of another edition

Read this for Senior year British Literature. Recall that i pretty much enjoyed the story. Action packed with nights and dragon monsters and dungeons and castles.
What I clearly remember though, is my interest in the challenge of understanding the Middle English in which this tale is writtern.

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Jan 27, 2010 Amber rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: history, own, classics, poetry, medieval, historical-fiction, british, 2020

Read this as our first family COVID-19 nightly read. I read this years ago in college and was interested in picking it up again and thought it would be the perfect book to read with the family.

Beowulf! What a guy!

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