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By and large, they tend to preserve certain familiar features of Anglo-Saxon verse as it has been constructed by editors, philologists, and translators: the emphasis on caesura and alliteration, with diction and syntax smoothed out for readability.

The problem with, and the paradox of this desired outcome, especially as it concerns Anglo-Saxon poetry, is that we are left with a document that translates an entire organizing principle based on oral transmission (and perhaps composition) into a visual, textual realm of writing and reading.

What happens, however, when a contemporary poet, quite simply, doesnt bother with any such nostalgia When the entire organizational apparatus of the poem--instead of being uneasily approximated in modern verse form--is itself translated into a modern organizing principle, i.e., the visual text This is the approach that poet Thomas Meyer takes; as he writes, Instead of the texts orality, perhaps perversely I went for the visual.

Every translation Id read felt impenetrable to me with its block after block of nearly uniform lines.

Among other quirky decisions made in order to open up the text, the project wound up being a kind of typological specimen book for long American poems extant circa 1965.

Having variously the look of Pounds Cantos, Williams Paterson, or Olson or Zukofsky, occasionally late Eliot, even David Jones.

Questi accompagna il suo signore alla tana della creatura, ma Beowulf decide di affrontarla da solo.

Wiglaf cerca di soccorrere il suo signore, che perisce poco dopo e a causa della sua morte eroica, ne viene celebrato il funerale vichingo; sfortunatamente, Beowulf non riesce ad avvisare in tempo il prode Wiglaf della verit.

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