LEADER 03389nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910777826703321 005 20230421045123.0 010 $a9786611730611 010 $a1-281-73061-0 010 $a0-300-13041-4 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300130416 035 $a(CKB)1000000000472163 035 $a(EBL)3420370 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000222992 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11172918 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000222992 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10181904 035 $a(PQKB)10038227 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420370 035 $a(DE-B1597)484933 035 $a(OCoLC)1024002149 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300130416 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420370 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10210253 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL173061 035 $a(OCoLC)923592694 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000472163 100 $a19970617d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPoems and prose from the Old English$b[electronic resource] /$ftranslated by Burton Raffel ; edited by Alexandra H. Olsen and Burton Raffel ; introductions by Alexandra H. Olsen 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc1998 215 $a1 online resource (252 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-300-06994-4 311 $a0-300-06995-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aPoetry -- Prose. 330 $aIn this restructured and greatly expanded version of Burton Raffel's out-of-print classic, Poems from the Old English, Raffel and co-editor Alexandra H. Olsen place the oldest English writings in an entirely different perspective. Keeping the classroom teacher's needs foremost in mind, Raffel and Olsen organize the major old English poems (except Beowulf) and new prose selections so as to facilitate both reading and studying. A general introduction provides an up-to-date and detailed historical account of the Anglo-Saxon period, and concise introductions open the literature sections of the book and many of the translations.Raffel's masterly translations of Old English poetry, praised as fine poems in their own right, reproduce much of the flavor as well as the sense of the originals. With more than 1800 newly translated lines and many revised older translations, the poems in this volume are organized into four genres-elegies, heroic poems, religious poems, and wisdom poetry. Raffel's new translations include more than twenty poem-riddles, with proposed solutions in a separate section. Prose translations-grouped in historical, testamentary and legal, religious, social and instructional, and medical and magical categories-feature writings by King Alfred, Aelfric, and Wulfstan, among others. 606 $aEnglish literature$yOld English, ca. 450-1100$vModernized versions 606 $aAnglo-Saxons$vLiterary collections 606 $aMiddle Ages$vLiterary collections 615 0$aEnglish literature 615 0$aAnglo-Saxons 615 0$aMiddle Ages 676 $a829/.08 701 $aOlsen$b Alexandra Hennessey$0764890 701 $aRaffel$b Burton$0458832 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777826703321 996 $aPoems and prose from the Old English$93762609 997 $aUNINA