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to the ghosts of great poets and remembrances of old friends
Learning is carried lightly
Jay Bernard’s powerful debut is a queer exploration of the black British archive
'One of this country’s finest literary talents' - Daily Telegraph
Beowulf: In Blank Verse by Richard Hamer Degna Stone to the ghosts of greatThe Anglo Saxon epic Beowulf tells the story of the hero's slaying of three fabulous monsters, set against the historical background of sixth century Scandinavian wars and dynasties. Its alliterative and metrical rules are complex, and many previous translators have attempted to replicate them. Here, blank verse has been used, as being more suitable for the less inflected and freer syntax of modern English, and therefore offering a more familiar and
