Owl and the Nightingale (eBook)

A New Verse Translation

Simon Armitage (Autor)

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2022
144 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23721-3 (ISBN)

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From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a complete verse translation of a spirited and humorous medieval English poemThe Owl and the Nightingale, one of the earliest literary works in Middle English, is a lively, anonymous comic poem about two birds who embark on a war of words in a wood, with a nearby poet reporting their argument in rhyming couplets, line by line and blow by blow. In this engaging and energetic verse translation, Simon Armitage captures the verve and humor of this dramatic tale with all the cut and thrust of the original.In an agile iambic tetrameter that skillfully amplifies the prosody and rhythm of the original, Armitage's translation moves entertainingly from the eloquent and philosophical to the ribald and ridiculous. Sounding at times like antagonists in a Twitter feud, the owl and the nightingale quarrel about a host of subjects that still resonate today-including love, marriage, identity, cultural background, class distinctions, and the right to be heard. Adding to the playful, raucous mood of the barb-trading birds is Armitage, who at one point inserts himself into the poem as a "e;magistrate . . . to adjudicate"e;-one who is "e;skilled with words & worldly wise / & frowns on every form of vice."e;Featuring the Middle English text on facing pages and an introduction by Armitage, this volume will delight readers of all ages.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.5.2022
• Reihe/Serie: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
• Reihe/Serie: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik
• Schlagworte: Abortion Debate • adage • addiction • Adult • adultery • age of the earth • age of the universe • Aircraft • Alien Technology • alien visitation • ALL THINGS • Alpha Centauri • Ambiguity • Anathema • Apollo Program • Aptitude • Aristotle • Arthur C. Clarke • Astrology • Astronomer • Astronomy • atomic number • aunt • author • authorship • baking • Bernie Sanders • Billion years • Chemical element • Complication (horology) • connotation • Cosmic microwave background • courtesy • Crone • crop circle • Denis Diderot • Designer • Dirge (Transformers) • Disgust • doomsday cult • Dunce • dwarf planet • earth • Earth's orbit • Elephantiasis • Embarrassment • english alphabet • erudition • Erving Goffman • exoplanet • Extremism • Facebook • Foe (novel) • Galileo Galilei • General relativity • Genre • Geocentric model • God • grandparent • Gravity • harassment • his woman • Horoscope • hour • Hubble space telescope • Iambic tetrameter • Illegal Immigration • In Death • Indiscretion (Star Trek Deep Space Nine) • Information Scientist • insect • Instagram • Intention • International Astronomical Union • Interstellar Medium • In the Bedroom • I Wish (manhwa) • Kepler's laws of planetary motion • Kim Jong-Un • Lament • Leon Festinger • light-year • Literature • Many Moons • martian • Medieval Poetry • Mercury (planet) • Meteorite • Microorganism • Microsoft • Military Aircraft • Misery (novel) • Misfortune (folk tale) • monologue • Moon rock • Mount Wilson observatory • narrative • National Air and Space Museum • National Rifle Association • Neptune • Neutron • new democrats • Newton's laws of motion • Nickname • Nomination • Norbert Elias • Oath • Observation • Opportunism • Orbit • Parody • Pastiche • person of color • Philosopher • Pierre-Simon Laplace • pity • Poetry • Political football • Prediction • Prejudice • profanity • Protagonist • proverb • Racism • Radiometric dating • residence • result • ridicule • rodent • Rumor • Science • Scientist • self-awareness • self-esteem • Shame • shortage • Singing • skepticism • slinky • Social Environment • Social Exclusion • Sociology • spacecraft • Spiral galaxy • Superiority (short story) • Tactic (method) • Technology • Tendril • The New York Times • The Owl and the Nightingale • This Country • Tit (bird) • To the moon • Transsexual • Treachery (law) • Trickster • Twitter • Two Birds (Awake) • Uncertainty • Unidentified Flying Object • Uranium-238 • vulgarity • warfare • Western thought • Wild boar • William the Conqueror • year • Yogh • yokel • zip code
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23721-2 / 0691237212
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23721-3 / 9780691237213