Complete Old English Poems : Translated by Craig Williamson : Hardback 2017

Complete Old English Poems 

By Translated by Craig Williamson

Published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Second Impression. Hardback book in dust jacket. 1188 pages.

CONDITION
A very good clean copy throughout and in a very good dust jacket with no tears or damage. Overall a fine copy.

Tom Shippey, in his introductory essay to the mammoth new volume The Complete Old English Poems, points out the obvious, that students, scholars, and poets “have found inspiration, insight, even comfort” in individual Old English poems, but there's been an odd gap in that long history of inspiration: 

Strange and challenging as they are, they are still capable of speaking to us over the centuries. The entire corpus, however, over 31,000 lines, has never before been translated in a collected edition by a single scholar and poet, as it has here. It deserves to be read in its entirety, for the poems illuminate each other, create a priceless example of cultural diversity which at the same time retains haunting familiarity.