Beowulf

SIGNET CLASSICSBEOWULFT ranslated and with an Introduction byBURTON RAFFELand with a New Afterword byROBERTA FRANKB urton Raffel has taught English, classics, and comparative literature at universities in the UnitedStates, Israel, and Canada. His books include translations of Beowulf , The Complete Poetry and Proseof Chairil Anwar, From the Vietnamese, Ten Centuries of Poetry, The Complete Poetry of OsipEmilevich Mandelstram (with Alla Burago), Poems from the Old English, and The Annotated Milton;critical studies including Introduction to Poetry, How to Read a Poem, The Development of ModernIndonesian Poetry, and The Forked Tongue: A Study of the Translation Process; and Mia Poems, avolume of his own poetry. Mr. Raffel practiced law on Wall Street and taught in the Ford Foundation sEnglish Language Teacher Training Project in Frank, Marie Borroff Professor of English at Yale University, works in the area of Old Norseand Old English language and literature.

Beowulf’s three combats, with Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and the dragon, occupy a surprisingly small part of the epic. As in the ceremonial wrestling of Japan, preliminaries—speeches, advice, reminiscences—are fully as important as actual fighting, and take longer in the telling. The poet can capture a battle scene with magnificent ...

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