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[Previously published under the title "The Lament of the Wanderer" by Heaventree Press, 2008. This digital edition has been revised and no longer features the original Anglo-Saxon text. The translated poem also appears in "Camper Van Blues", Salt Publishing, 2008.]
The Wanderer is an Anglo-Saxon elegiac poem of 115 lines, translated here by English poet and Eric Gregory Award winner Jane Holland. Please note, to avoid disappointment, this ebook only contains an introduction and the translated poem itself.
Most likely to have been composed well before the tenth century, The Wanderer survives in The Exeter Book and is often grouped together with other Anglo-Saxon poems of an elegiac or melancholy nature, such as The Seafarer, Deor, The Ruin, The Wife’s Lament and Wulf and Eadwacer.
The key themes of The Wanderer include the usual AS preoccupation with the transience of life and the need for warriors to seek out earthly glory before inevitable death. The ancient ruined walls of cities built by a race of giants, long since vanished, stand as a reminder that such glory is ultimately futile. Human memories will fade, the deeds of great warriors failing to be passed down; whole clans may be wiped out, the terrible attrition of their wars gradually forgotten. In other words, the harsh lessons of the past may need to be relearnt by each new generation.
Part translation, part inspired version, this controversial reworking of an Old English poem features a female Wanderer instead of the traditional male narrator, and was written to be enjoyed as a poem in its own right. It is accompanied in this edition by an Introduction to the original poem, along with a discussion of the translation itself.
‘... a strong, female-perspective version of the Old English poem, "The Wanderer." The versification is musical, the occasional alliteration delicately shaded in. It never sounds forced.’ -- Carol Rumens: Guardian Unlimited
' ... an original and moving re-imagining of one of the great works of medieval literature.' -- Matt Merritt: Happenstance reviews
Jane Holland is an established English poet, novelist and critic. She won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 1997 and has published five collections of poetry to date, with Bloodaxe Books, Salt Publishing, Heaventree, and Nine Arches Press. She has been Warwick Poet Laureate, and has also published and edited fiction. Her poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, and she is the former editor of arts journal Horizon Review.
The Wanderer is an Anglo-Saxon elegiac poem of 115 lines, translated here by English poet and Eric Gregory Award winner Jane Holland. Please note, to avoid disappointment, this ebook only contains an introduction and the translated poem itself.
Most likely to have been composed well before the tenth century, The Wanderer survives in The Exeter Book and is often grouped together with other Anglo-Saxon poems of an elegiac or melancholy nature, such as The Seafarer, Deor, The Ruin, The Wife’s Lament and Wulf and Eadwacer.
The key themes of The Wanderer include the usual AS preoccupation with the transience of life and the need for warriors to seek out earthly glory before inevitable death. The ancient ruined walls of cities built by a race of giants, long since vanished, stand as a reminder that such glory is ultimately futile. Human memories will fade, the deeds of great warriors failing to be passed down; whole clans may be wiped out, the terrible attrition of their wars gradually forgotten. In other words, the harsh lessons of the past may need to be relearnt by each new generation.
Part translation, part inspired version, this controversial reworking of an Old English poem features a female Wanderer instead of the traditional male narrator, and was written to be enjoyed as a poem in its own right. It is accompanied in this edition by an Introduction to the original poem, along with a discussion of the translation itself.
‘... a strong, female-perspective version of the Old English poem, "The Wanderer." The versification is musical, the occasional alliteration delicately shaded in. It never sounds forced.’ -- Carol Rumens: Guardian Unlimited
' ... an original and moving re-imagining of one of the great works of medieval literature.' -- Matt Merritt: Happenstance reviews
Jane Holland is an established English poet, novelist and critic. She won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 1997 and has published five collections of poetry to date, with Bloodaxe Books, Salt Publishing, Heaventree, and Nine Arches Press. She has been Warwick Poet Laureate, and has also published and edited fiction. Her poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, and she is the former editor of arts journal Horizon Review.
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Kindle
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14 pagina's
Taal
Engels
Gepubliceerd
Oct 27, 2011
Uitgever
Thimblerig Press