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Synopsis
Questo poema senza nome d'autore e senza titolo, di datazione incerta (VII secolo?), č il pių antico testo poetico lungo, scritto in un volgare europeo, l'unica epica compiuta delle letterature germaniche antiche, uno dei testi principali della letteratura anglosassone, poema dedicato a un tema il combattimento tra un uomo e un mostro. In poco pių di tremila versi il poema racconta la strenua lotta di un giovane di nome Beowulf con un drago, intersecando elementi mitici, favolistici, leggende eroiche e fatti storici documentabili e datati.
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About the Author
Burton Raffel has taught English, Classics, and Comparative Literature at universities in the United States, Israel, and Canada. His books include translations of Beowulf, Horace: Odes, Epodes, Epistles, Satires, The Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar, From the Vietnamese, Ten Centuries of Poetry, The Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich, Mandelstram (with Alla Burago), and Poems From the Old English and The Annotated Milton; several critical studies, Introduction to Poetry, How to Read a Poem, The Development of Modern Indonesian Poetry, and The Forked Tounge: A Study of the Translation Process; and Mia Poems, a volume of his own poetry. Mr. Raffel practiced law on Wall Street and taught in the Ford Foundation’s English Language Teacher Training Project in Indonesia.
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Text: English (translation)
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