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aimiller 's review for:
Beowulf: A New Translation
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funny
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This was really a delight--Headley makes the work so accessible, even if I don't know that all the insertion of more modern language works (or that it appears so frequently, outside of the "bro" that became kind of the selling point of the translation.)
But really it's amazing how easy it was to read, especially given just now old the poem is, and the introduction does I think an incredible job of setting you up to read the book--just enough context to help you understand what is going on, orient yourself, and clearly see where Headley sees her translation intervening on previous translations, without like drowning you in information on previous translations or broader history. I think maybe the highest praise of this I could give is that it made me immediately want to go out and read other translations of the text, not because I wanted something more from this text that I felt was lacking, but because reading this made me feel emboldened to go out and reencounter this formidable text in different forms.
But really it's amazing how easy it was to read, especially given just now old the poem is, and the introduction does I think an incredible job of setting you up to read the book--just enough context to help you understand what is going on, orient yourself, and clearly see where Headley sees her translation intervening on previous translations, without like drowning you in information on previous translations or broader history. I think maybe the highest praise of this I could give is that it made me immediately want to go out and read other translations of the text, not because I wanted something more from this text that I felt was lacking, but because reading this made me feel emboldened to go out and reencounter this formidable text in different forms.