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“The ruinous deeds of the ravaging foe (Beowulf) The best-known long text in Old English is the epic poem Beowulf. Beowulf himself is a…

— Ronald Carter

“Poem Written in a Copy of Beowulf At various times, I have asked myself what reasons moved me to study, while my night came…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Beloved Beowulf, remember how you boasted, Once, that nothing in the world would ever Destroy your fame; fight to keep it, Now, be strong…

— Burton Raffel

[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

— Richard Armour

“Beowulf stands out as a poem which makes extensive use of this kind of figurative language. There are over one thousand compounds in the…

— Ronald Carter

“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Now these ashes have grown cold, we open the old book. These oil-stained pages recount the tales of the Fallen, a frayed empire, words…

— Steven Erikson

“The oldest written poem was by the Greek, Homer. His poem, The Iliad, tells the story of the siege of Troy, a story of…

— Terry Deary

“English poetic education should, really, not begin with The Canterbury Tales, not with the Odyssey, not even with Genesis, but with Song of Amergin.”

— Robert Graves

“A poet, Hephaestion, sings not to narrate human events as they occur, but to make sure that we have the opportunity of living the…

— Valerio Massimo Manfredi

“His copy was full of lofty echoes: Greek Tragedy; Damocle's sword; manna from heaven; the myth of Sisyphus; the last of the Mohicans; hydra-headed…

— Tarun J. Tejpal

“The old stories must be learned anew, studied again within the context of a world at odds with itself and only able to be…

— Michael Meade