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Originally Posted by annie nance
Wow, what a great thread!
Is it bad that I never read Beowulf, and passed Junior English anyway?
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Not bad at all. I'd read a couple different versions of
Beowulf (one translation I can't recall in high school, and the David Wright translation a few years ago), but never found it overly special. Beyond providing some important literary archetypes, it hasn't exactly been essential reading. However, the Heaney translation is (in my opinion) worth all of the acclaim it receives. I read it last year, and the story jumps off the page like never before, and his wording of the litotes is fantastic.