The Translations of Beowulf: A Critical Bibliography

by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

But this absence of ease and dignity does not hinder Dr. Hall’s translation from being an excellent rendering of the matter of the poem, at once less fanciful than Earle’s[5] and more modern than Garnett’s[6], its only rivals as a literal translation. That it conveys an adequate notion of the style of Beowulf, however, it is impossible to affirm.

[1.] Chiefly of Anglo-Saxon antiquities.

[2.] See supra, [p. 91].

[3.] See my forthcoming review of the book in the Journal of Germanic Philology.

[4.] See supra, [p. 91].

[5.] See supra, [p. 91].

[6.] See supra, [p. 83].

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[ TINKER’S TRANSLATION]

Beowulf, translated out of the Old English by Chauncey Brewster Tinker, M.A. New York: Newson and Co., 1902. 12^o, pp. 158.