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The Translations of Beowulf

by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

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Appendix II

A Bibliography of Works Which Contain Selections From Beowulf Translated Into English

(Only works which translate at least thirty lines are noted.)

ten Brink, Bernhard, and Kennedy, Horace, in Early English Literature (to Wiclif). London and New York, 1883. Verse.

Brown, Anna R., in Poet Lore, II, 133, 185. Verse, ll. 26–53, and 1493–1571.

Gummere, F. B., in the American Journal of Philology, VII, 77, ll. 1–52. Verse.

—— in Germanic Origins (New York, 1892), pp. 109 ff. Verse.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, in Poets and Poetry of Europe, lines 18–40; 53–83; 189–257; 1789–1803; 2455–2462. Verse.

Morley, Henry, in English Writers, I, pp. 287 ff. (second edition, London, 1887). Verse.

Robinson, W. Clarke, in Introduction to our Early English Literature (London, 1885). Lines 87–98 (verse), and 1–52 (prose).

Smith, C. Sprague, in the New Englander, IV, p. 49. Lines 711–838; Section XII, Section XIII, 1493–1652; Section XXIII, Section XXIV. Verse.

Sweet, Henry, in Warton’s History of English Poetry, ed. W. Carew Hazlitt (London, 1877). Vol. II, pp. 11–12. Prose.

Tolman, A. H., in Transactions of the Modern Language Association, III, pp. 19 ff. In the ‘Style of Anglo-Saxon Poetry.’ Prose.

Incomplete Paraphrase

Palmer, Bertha, in Stories from the Classic Literature of many Nations (New York, 1898), pp. 262–263. Beowulf’s Fight with Grendel, using J. L. Hall’s translation as a basis.

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