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...Bernice Larson Webb Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 James Bond As Literary Descendant of Beowulf Bernice Larson Webb The legendary Teutonic superman Beowulf would seem to have a counterpart today in the teenagers culture hero James Bond, secret agent 007. Although...

...Everett H. Emerson Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 ON TRANSLATING BEOWULF Everett H. Emerson TRANSLATING Beowulf continues to be a rather popular schol­ arly recreation. Two new translations have recently appeared, bringing the number of versions available in modern English...

... tale Leaf by Niggle, and The Lord of the Rings, which at this time was beginning to unroll itself and to unfold prospects of labour and exploration in yet unknown country as daunting to me as to the hobbits. 1 One may also wish to include here Tolkien s lecture on Beowulf, delivered to the British...

... us that know the true glory of the Anglo-Saxon tongue ? You will find ten thousand men in the United States who can read Ho­ mer s poems to one who can read Beowulf; and yet one is an epic of a people on the other side of the world, while Beowulf is our own English epic. You will find ten thousand...

... is thrown off; the neophyte stands alone with the pure text. The origin of this new approach lies in the protest of certain departments or faculties against the hardships of a forced march from Beowulf to Thomas Hardy. Exhaustion is said to kill love. Many students the argument goes who might have learned...

... encounter between the monster Grendel and the epic hero Beowulf. Like Beowulf, the modern Tarzans of serial and comicstrip fame stay under water longer than is humanly possible. The twentieth-century author, however, must attempt a scientific explana­ tion to make his hero s deeds plausible, whereas...

.... New York: Columbia University Press, 1950. Pp. xi, 184. $2.50. This small book of Professor Lawrence s is in some sense a parallel to his Beowulf and Ej>ic Tradition (1928), in which he attempted to sum up the best results of technical study for the literary appreciation of Beo­ wulf. Now again...

... the torch; and ending with the delicate remark: I am not even sure that Dr. Curry would be pleased to be placed where I have placed him. The essays themselves embrace a considerable range in topic and importance, from the meter of Beowulf to the awakening of our first mother in Paradise Lost...

... though it be, which could, I feel sure, do much for the modern American pupil and student. The manly vigor and directness of such an epic as Beowulf are far better suited to train youths than the sentimental resignation of most modern poetry. 296 The South Atlantic Quarterly. The book contains...

... have carried and already laid down the torch; and ending with the delicate remark: I am not even sure that Dr. Curry would be pleased to be placed where I have placed him. The essays themselves embrace a considerable range in topic and importance, from the meter of Beowulf to the awakening of our...

... Witherle Law­ rence. New York: Columbia University Press, 1950. Pp. xi, 184. $2.50. This small book of Professor Lawrence s is in some sense a parallel to his Beowulf and Ej>ic Tradition (1928), in which he attempted to sum up the best results of technical study for the literary appreciation of Beo­ wulf...

... should be viewed, their essays represent several different ways of under­ standing its nature and worth. The emphasis is rightly on Beowulf with essays by Adrien Bonjour, Larry D. Benson, Neil D. Isaacs, Paul Beekman Taylor, Stanley B. Greenfield, R. E. Kaske, Burton Raffel, and John Nist...

... they are in no such agreement about how the poetry should be viewed, their essays represent several different ways of under­ standing its nature and worth. The emphasis is rightly on Beowulf with essays by Adrien Bonjour, Larry D. Benson, Neil D. Isaacs, Paul Beekman Taylor, Stanley B. Greenfield, R. E. Kaske, Burton Raffel...

.... The essays themselves embrace a considerable range in topic and importance, from the meter of Beowulf to the awakening of our first mother in Paradise Lost. Appropriately to Professor Curry s teaching interests, the proportions are well assigned: five each to Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton. Thus almost...

... tech­ nical articles, is not so extensive or interesting as the First Series (1919). The first study is Professor Hubbard s The Plundering of the Hoard in Beowulf, a reply to Professor W. W. Laurence s recent contention (P.M.L.A., XXXIII, 547-83) that the plunderer of the dragon s hoard...

..., Melville, instead, wrote an epic. He contrasts the lavish use of oil for illumination in the houses of polite society ashore with the perils and hardships of the whalemen. Ahab in his mad pursuit of the white whale seems a modern superman or a Beowulf reborn pursuing the monster of evil that preys upon so­...

..., for they are his chief stock-in-trade of the mechanics of verse. No poet of our country has such varied and delicate rhythms, few elsewhere. Of course, rhythmic or free verse is not new. It is the measure of a great part of the Hebrew Bible; of Beowulf, where it is aided by alliteration; and of Macpher­ son s...

... the daredevil is a constantly recurring character. From primitive champions like Beowulf to train-robbers like Jesse James and killers like John Dillinger the imagination of men has often cast an aura over the lives of those who dare to rebel against fate or authority or law. In many Negro communities, however...

... and normality, anomaly and norm, life and death, cosmos and chaos, being and “nonbeing” (SSD, 42, 44). In one of the most suggestive passages, which is devoted to the interpretation of the Anglo-Saxon representation of slavery and servitude in Beowulf, Patter- son writes, “It was precisely because he...

... extant manuscript of Beowulf than we do about these compositors whose work is so crucial in the transmission of Shakespeare s plays. Dr. Walker presents the first comprehensive study of their work, with results that can leave no question about the value of this kind of investigation. Because of her work...