The Complete Works of the Pearl Poet - Rilegato

Andrew, Malcolm; Waldron, Ronald

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0520068742 ISBN 13: 9780520068742

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 1993

Riassunto

This edition presents, for the first time, the entire oeuvre of the Pearl poet with both the original Middle English works and complete verse translations. Poet and scholar Casey Finch uses anapestic tetrameters (and iambic tetrameter forPearl) in his translations rather than the accented tetrameters of the originals, thus achieving the rhythmic regularity the poems would have displayed when performed to music, as they surely were meant to be. Finch's translations are printed facing the best modern editions of the poems, those of Malcolm Andrew and Ronald Waldron and of Clifford Peterson.

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Informazioni sull?autore

The late Casey Finch taught in the Department of English at New York University. He was the author of two books of poetry,The Forbidden Book (1981) and Harming Others (1992), and several scholarly articles on literary topics.

Dal risvolto di copertina interno

"Finch's translations will add much to the pleasure and value of teaching and learning late medieval English history."Robert Brentano, author ofTwo Churches

"Casey Finch has found an idiom in which these poems can speak Modern English, and in doing so can convey the most elusive and complex effects of the originals. . . . He has conveyed the vitality of these poems in a verse that is as assured, gracious, blunt, urgent, plangent, rich, and perpetually surprising as that of the unknown poet or poets who made them. These brilliant poems have at last found a craftsman who understands the secrets of their intricate luminosity, a faithful steward of a distinctive verbal treasure of the language. In this translation these poems shine as brightly and clearly as they did when newly made, pearls without peer in English."Anne Middleton, University of California, Berkeley

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0520068742
• ISBN 13: 9780520068742
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 488
• Redattore: Peterson Clifford
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile