Title: Shamefully Flawed
Product review: Heaney's translation, while immensely popular, is inaccurate at crucial moments. He seems to simply make up his own translation, even when a literal reading would have been equally intelligible and poetic, while preserving the original sense of the poem. The shame in this is that Heaney's work is becoming the "definitive edition," even in schools. There are obviously much better translations for scholars. For the casual reader, I suggest Liuzza's excellent work:Beowulf (Broadview Literary Texts) (Broadview Literary Texts Series)
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