Nov 19, 2008

The Seafarer | What Do I Read Next?

Those who are not only interested in Old English literature but also charmed by Burton Raffel’s masterful translation should pick up Signet’s 1999 reprint of Raffel’s Beowulf. Considerably longer than “The Seafarer” elegy, this epic narrates the exploits of some of the great heroes of the Germanic tribal past.

Hard-core enthusiasts of Old English literature and Burton Raffel will also want to read Poems and Prose from the Old English, translated and edited by Burton Raffel with the editorial assistance of Alexandra Hennessey Olsen in Yale University Press’s 1998...