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# Beowulf

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			        		&#x201C;Mitchell aims to find for Beowulf a &#x2018;contemporary language that seems natural and alive&#x2019;, and he does this well&#x2026; His rendering of Beowulf has much to offer &#x2014;narrative momentum, clarity, a sense of the poem&#x2019;s heroic verve, and a contemporary slant.&#x201D;&#x2014;Susan Irvine, Times Literary Supplement&#x201C;Stephen Mitchell&#x2019;s translation of Beowulf is the best I have read&#x2014;and I own more than a dozen. . . . If you want to have some idea of the power of Beowulf in its original language without having to learn Old English, Mitchell&#x2019;s translation would be a good place to start.&#x201D;&#x2014;Stephen Bolhafner, St. Louis Post-Dispatch&#x201C;A most readable, energetic, and colorful translation of this savage epic. . . . An amazing achievement.&#x201D;&#x2014;Billy Collins&#x201C;Stephen Mitchell&#x2019;s new translation of Beowulf is elegantly wrought, highly accurate, and fully annotated. It is a compact and remarkably readable version.&#x201D;&#x2014;Eric Weiskott, Boston College&#x201C;Stephen Mitchell comes as close to fulfilling the translator&#x2019;s task as anyone at work today. He admirably balances two imperatives: to maintain fidelity to the text while rendering it available to the English we speak today. Mitchell&#x2019;s reader-friendly version of Beowulf honors the narrative and will extend the readership for this foundational work of English literature.&#x201D;&#x2014;David&#xA0;Lehman&#x201C;Mitchell&#x2019;s version is eloquent and conveys a true sense of the original. In addition, his notes are a great enhancement.&#x201D;&#x2014;Harold Bloom
						    	
					    	
						
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			        		Stephen Mitchell&#x2019;s many books include Tao Te Ching, which has sold over a million copies, The Gospel According to Jesus, Bhagavad Gita, The Book of Job, Gilgamesh, and The Iliad.
						    	
					    	
						
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## Customer Reviews

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    Five Stars
  

*by L***H on December 12, 2017*









  
  
    This was the one translation that my husband didn't have.  He was thrilled!
  


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    A Stirring, and Reasonably Faithful, New Translation
  

*by P***P on October 2, 2017*









  
  
    "Beowulf" has been around for over a thousand years, minimum. Serious translations have been attempted since the early 1800's, and there are well over 30 "approved" or "recognized" translations and innumerable additional efforts. When an epic poem has been celebrated as the oldest long poem in Olde English, deemed a foundational work of English literature, mocked by Monty Python, and turned into a movie featuring a computer generated version of Angelina Jolie, well, those are all pretty good reasons for putting that poem on your reading list.Like other difficult and challenging works in translation, (say, "Don Quixote", or even better, the Welsh "Mabinogion"), there seem to be three approaches to translation. One is the academic and scholarly approach that wrestles with every dot and comma, and sometimes ends up both authentic and tediously or idiosyncratically unreadable. Another approach is to take the actual source text as a mere suggestion or starting point for a fanciful reinterpretation that bears little relation to the original. The happy medium, (which I feel is what we have here), is the work that honors the letter and the spirit of the original, takes some liberties in the name of creating a worthy tale, and captures the energy, romance, and thrill of the work as originally intended. While I am no Beowulf scholar, and cannot testify to where this version stands on the professional academic scale, I would suggest that if you are a reader who primarily wants a solid, gripping and vivid introduction to "Beowulf", this is a wonderful place to start.Mitchell opens the book with an introduction that sets the book in historical, social and cultural context. He explains the basic hows and whys of his approach to the translation, and offers some eye opening examples of how any particular passage could be, should be, and perhaps shouldn't be, translated. He explains the form and metre of the poem, and explains some of the more subtle decisions he made in that regard as the translator. There is an especially interesting discussion of the pagan versus Christian elements of the poem. This is not belabored, and is accessible to an interested but non-professional reader.With that we proceed to the poem, (with the original Old English and then the translation alternating). One is immediately struck by how fresh and accessible this version is. The poem flows smoothly but powerfully. To over simplify, I gather that in the academic community there is much debate about whether "Beowulf" should be considered a "written" work or a transcribed version of an "oral" tale. I don't know; don't really care. What does matter is that this translation has the immediacy, the narrative drive, and the clarity and energy of a living work that could be declaimed right now in a mead hall to a thunderously positive reception. I'll settle for that.(Please note that I received a free advance ecopy of this book without a review requirement, or any influence regarding review content should I choose to post a review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)
  


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    and adventure sounded like it would be a great read
  

*by J***T on July 22, 2018*









  
  
    Beowulf by Translated by Stephen Mitchell is a contemporary translation of the classic poem. Mitchell was educated at Amherst, the Sorbonne, and Yale, and de-educated through intensive Zen practice. His many books include the bestselling Tao Te Ching, The Gospel According to Jesus, Bhagavad Gita, The Book of Job, Meetings with the Archangel, Gilgamesh, The Second Book of the Tao, and the Iliad.It was in high school that I first read Beowulf. Monsters, Vikings, and adventure sounded like it would be a great read, however, it turned out to be misery. The text was in old English and not the thing my high school brain wanted to focus on. I asked why it wasn't written in modern language. I was told it would lose it poetic style and intent. Little did I know, we were reading a translation. Several translations exist of the now unreadable original English. Many high schoolers were probably happy with the 2007 release of Beowulf with Angelina Jolie as Grendel's mother. Mitchell points out one major flaw of that movie. The characters in the movie talked in almost comic book fashion rather than the well-spoken characters in the original text.Translations also bring about the problem of the poetry and in particular in this poem the alliteration. Mitchell keeps this alive with alliteration with repeated sound over that of just the first letter. There is a rhythm with words and the line structure that holds true to the original.  In the introduction, Mitchell also discusses another interesting point of the poem, religion.  In the poem, a singular God is mentioned throughout.  It is not the Norse pantheon.  The God, however, is a bit ambiguous.  Although called Lord and mentions Cain, it does not seem, historically or in the poem, to be the Jewish God.  Yet, the text makes no reference to Jesus or the New Testament.Mitchell's translation does an excellent job of preserving the story as well as the literary quality of the original work.  This translation avoids the graphic novel treatment of the classics in simplifying language and the plot.  It is the full text in a format that is easily comprehended by most readers.
  


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