Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Translations of Beowulf: A Critical Bibliography
In speaking of the translations which we may call literary, I have naturally paid most attention to the English versions, and this for several reasons. In the first place, Beowulf is an Englzlr/z poem; secondly, the number, variety, and im portance of the English translations warrant this emphasis; thirdly, the present writer is unable to discuss in detail the literary and metrical value of translations in foreign tongues. The account given of German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, French, and Italian versions is, therefore, of a more strictly bibliographical nature but, whenever possible, some notion has been given of the general critical Opinion with regard to them.
An asterisk is placed before the titles of books which the present writer has not seen.
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