Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation

By: Delanty, Greg

Book Overview

Featuring 123 all-new translations by seventy-four of our most celebrated poets--including Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Billy Collins, Eavan Boland, Richard Wilbur, and many others--"this brilliant anthology infuses new vigor into Old English poetry" (Library Journal). Presented in an authoritative bilingual edition, The Word Exchange is as fascinating and multivocal as the original literature it translates.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393342417
• ISBN13: 9780393342413
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.6" x 8.5"