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Beowulf
Edwin Morgan
William Wootten writes:
As an early and defining Morgan poem, Beowulf remains indispensable. The
attempt to make a strange time and tongue communicate is supremely Morganish
behaviour, But Beowulf has a rather more personal significance.
In his new preface, Morgan writes:
ŒThe translation, which was begun shortly after I came out of the army at
the end of the Second World War, was in a sense my unwritten war poem, and I
would not want to alter the expression I gave to its themes of conflict and
danger, voyaging and displacement, loyalty and loss.¹
ŒNot one of them thought he would ever again
Leave there to find his beloved land,
His folk or his fortress, where he once was bred;
For they knew how sudden death had already
Swept from the wine-hall more than too many¹.
Carcanet paperback ISBN: 9781857545883
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