J. J. Earle
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. John J. Earle (1824 – 1903) was a British academic and clergyman, the rector of Swanswick and Rawlinson Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford.
He translated Beowulf in 1892, a version that was described by J.R.R. Tolkien as "one of the most poorly translated works ever." Chauncey B. Tinker, in his The Translations of Beowulf: A Critical Bibliography, was more generous; he said
- "As a whole, the translation may fairly be called faithful",
but
- "the simpler passages of the poem [...] are often strained to make them square with the translator's personal notions" and "[t]he archaic style used by Professor Earle cannot be regarded as highly felicitous, since it mixes the diction of various ages."
He wrote a book, Anglo-Saxon, in 1884.
References
- Earle, John. Anglo-Saxon. (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1884).
- Tinker, Chauncey Brewster. The translations of Beowulf; a critical bibliography. (New York: Holt, 1903). (Modern reprint with new introduction, Hamden: Archon Books, 1974), ISBN 0-208-01482-9.
External links
- Works by J. J. Earle at Project Gutenberg
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