内容简介
BeowulfistheearliestextantpoeminamodernEuropeanlanguage?reflectingafeudal,newlyChristianworldofheroesandmonsters,bloodandvictory,lifeanddeath.Itsbeauty,power,andartistryhavekeptitaliveformorethanthirteencenturies.《贝奥武甫》是继罗马史诗之后欧洲最早的一部用本民族语言写成的史诗，是英国文学中第一部重要作品。史诗中的历史人物，据记载生活在5至6世纪。史诗故事发生在相当于现在的丹麦和瑞典南部——当时盎格鲁-撒克逊人居住的地方，从5世纪中叶起，这些民族不断向不列颠移民。大约在8世纪前半叶，关于贝奥武甫的传说才在他们定居的不列颠被写成文字。史诗叙述了勇士贝奥武甫与怪物格兰道尔搏斗，使其断臂而死；怪物之母为子复仇，又被他追踪杀死。后来贝奥武甫做了国王，一次火龙来犯，他挺身斩龙，伤重而死，人民为他举行了隆重的葬礼。史诗结构严谨，选材集中，在欧洲文学史上占有重要地位。
作者简介
BurtonRaffelhastaughtEnglish,Classics,andComparativeLiteratureatuniversitiesintheUnitedStates,Israel,andCanada.HisbooksincludetranslationsofBeowulf,Horace:Odes,Epodes,Epistles,Satires,TheCompletePoetryandProseofChairilAnwar,FromtheVietnamese,TenCenturiesofPoetry,TheCompletePoetryofOsipEmilevich,Mandelstram(withAllaBurago),andPoemsFromtheOldEnglishandTheAnnotatedMilton;severalcriticalstudies,IntroductiontoPoetry,HowtoReadaPoem,TheDevelopmentofModernIndonesianPoetry,andTheForkedTounge:AStudyoftheTranslationProcess;andMiaPoems,avolumeofhisownpoetry.Mr.RaffelpracticedlawonWallStreetandtaughtintheFordFoundation’sEnglishLanguageTeacherTrainingProjectinIndonesia.BurtonRaffelhastaughtEnglish,Classics,andComparativeLiteratureatuniversitiesintheUnitedStates,Israel,andCanada.HisbooksincludetranslationsofBeowulf,Horace:Odes,Epodes,Epistles,Satires,TheCompletePoetryandProseofChairilAnwar,FromtheVietnamese,TenCenturiesofPoetry,TheCompletePoetryofOsipEmilevich,Mandelstram(withAllaBurago),andPoemsFromtheOldEnglishandTheAnnotatedMilton;severalcriticalstudies,IntroductiontoPoetry,HowtoReadaPoem,TheDevelopmentofModernIndonesianPoetry,andTheForkedTounge:AStudyoftheTranslationProcess;andMiaPoems,avolumeofhisownpoetry.Mr.RaffelpracticedlawonWallStreetandtaughtintheFordFoundation’sEnglishLanguageTeacherTrainingProjectinIndonesia.
