title: Beowulf: An Updated Verse Translation (Perennial Classics)
author:  Frederick Rebsamen 
description: Reads very well and comes to life, especially when read aloud....It will have a permanent place among <em>Beowulf </em>translations. (<strong>Fred Robinson, Yale University</strong>)<br /><br />There are lots of translations of <em>Beowulf</em> floating around, some prose, some poetry, but none manages to capture the feel and tone of the original as well as this one....A very impressive and sometimes inspired piece of work. It fills a need and fills it admirably. (<strong>Dick Ringler, Professor of English and Scandinavian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison</strong>)<br /><br />[This] translation is a truly splendid job....The verse flows with little punctuation but entire clarity. (<strong>Richard Wilbur</strong>)<br /><br />No self-respecting college professor will want his students to be without it....Renditions in modern English havent taken the poetry of the original very seriously--but what a shock now that someone has! With the subtle rules of alliteration, stress, and pause in place--and with a translator bold enough to invent his own vigorous and imaginative compound nouns--the poem suddenly takes flight and carries us to the highest mountains of achievement. (<strong><em>Booklist</em></strong>)
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  # The Deformed Transformed
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### George Gordon, Lord Byron
  
  
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  PART I.
  
  
    
  Scene I.
  
  
    
  Scene II.
  
  
  PART II.
  
  
    
  Scene I.
  
  
    
  Scene II.
  
  
    
  Scene III.
  
  
  PART III.
  
  
    
  Scene I.
  
  
    
  FRAGMENT OF THE THIRD PART
  
  
  
      DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
  
  
  
  
  
  Stranger, _afterwards_ Cæsar.
  
  
  Arnold.
  
  
  Bourbon.
  
  
  Philibert.
  
  
  Cellini.
  
  
  Bertha.
  
  
  Olimpia.
  
  
  _Spirits, Soldiers, Citizens of Rome, Priests, Peasants, etc._
  
  
  ## PART I.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Scene I.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  _—A Forest._
  
  
    
    
  _Enter Arnold and his
  
  
  mother Bertha._
  
  
    
    
  _Bert._
  
  
    
  Out, Hunchback!
  
  
    
  _Arn._
  
  
    
  I was born so, Mother!
  
  
    
  _Bert._
  
  
    
  Out,
  
  
    
  Thou incubus! Thou nightmare! Of seven sons,
  
  
    
    
  The sole abortion!
  
  
    
  _Arn._
  
  
    
  Would that I had been so,
  
  
    
  And never seen the light!
  
  
    
  _Bert._
  
  
    
  I would so, too!
  
  
    
  But as thou _hast_ —hence, hence—and do thy best!
  
  
    
  That back of thine may