The Word Exchange by Greg Delanty
Featuring 123 all-new translations by seventy-four of our most celebrated poets including Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Billy Collins, Eavan Boland, Richard Wilbur, and many others this brilliant anthology infuses new vigor into Old English poetry (Library Journal). Presented in an authoritative bilingual edition, The Word Exchange is as fascinating and multivocal as the original literature it translates.
"Starred Review: This brilliant anthology infuses new vigor into Old English poetry and will delight scholars and general readers alike…The results are stunning. The different translations convey the multivocal variety characterizing the originals, a quality usually absent from selections translated by one hand…. Highly recommended." -- Library Journal
"Starred Review. Hefty and easy to like, fit at once for the classroom and the kitchen table, this anthology is a rare beast, a commercial opportunity that also fulfills a real literary need…. The editors have produced a book the many fans of Heaney’s Beowulf might take home and dip into, almost at random, for years." -- Publishers Weekly
"Starred Review. Hefty and easy to like, fit at once for the classroom and the kitchen table, this anthology is a rare beast, a commercial opportunity that also fulfills a real literary need…. The editors have produced a book the many fans of Heaney’s Beowulf might take home and dip into, almost at random, for years." -- Publishers Weekly
Greg Delanty is an artist-in-residence at Saint Michael’s College. He lives in Burlington, Vermont. Michael Matto is an associate professor of English at Adelphi University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Seamus Heaney (1939—2013) was an Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer and recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born at Mossbawn farmhouse between Castledawson and Toomebridge, County Derry, he resided in Dublin until his death.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393079012 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393079015 |
| Title | The Word Exchange |
| Author | Greg Delanty |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2011-02-11 |
| Number of pages | 576 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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