Unlikeness is us
Subtitle: fourteen from the Exeter book
By: Christopher Patton
Publisher: Gaspereau Press, Printers & Publishers
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Kentville, Nova Scotia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781554471751
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: English poetry; Translations into English; Old English
Work titles: Exeter book. Selections. English
Description: "Unlikeness Is Us presents fourteen new translations of Old English poems preserved in the tenth-century Exeter Book, including well-known works like "The Seafarer" and "The Wanderer," as well as others rarely seen in translation. Prioritizing their integrity as poetry, Patton's translations work the Anglo-Saxon alliterative line into a patterned, four-beat contemporary English form, retaining the relentless forward drive of the originals and adhering to sometimes idiosyncratic scribal punctuation. Through his critical introduction, notes and commentary, Patton presents the reader with the complex history of these texts' transcription, translation and interpretation, departing from long-dominant Augustinian premises in favour of an approach that embraces the materiality of text and "a world animate, alarming, marvellous, and weird.""--
Notes: Translation of: Exeter book.

Poems.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Orientation points ; Vagrant inquiry; title: The poems. The swan ; The wold ; The deer ; The ruin ; Wisdom, first take ; Clutter of starlings ; His message ; Her case ; The cuckoo ; Wisdom, second take ; The seafarer ; The earthwalker ; Wisdom, last take ; A bookworm; title: Commentary & notes; title: Rhizomatic bibliography.