6lib.ru - Электронная Библиотека
Название книги: Beowulf, The Monsters and The Critics
Автор(ы): John Ronald Ruel Tolkien
Жанр: Критика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Beowulf_-The-Monsters-and-The-Critics-192183.html
SIR ISRAEL GOLLANCZ LECTURE 1936Read 25 November 1936In 1864 the Reverend Oswald Cockayne wrote of the Reverend Doctor Joseph Bosworth, Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon: 'I have tried to lend to others the con-viction I have long entertained that Dr. Bosworth is not a man so diligent in his special walk as duly to read the books ... which have been printed in our old English, or so-called Anglosaxon tongue. He may do very well for a professor.'{1} These words were inspired by dissatisfaction with Bosworth's dictionary, and were doubtless unfair. If Bosworth were still alive, a modern Cockayne would probably accuse him of not reading the 'literature' of his subject, the books written about the books in the so-called Anglo-Saxon tongue. The original books are nearly buried.Of none is this so true as of The Beowulf, as it used to be called. I have, of course, read The Beowulf, as have most (but not all) of those who have criticized it. But I fear that, un
Название книги: Beowulf, The Monsters and The Critics
Автор(ы): John Ronald Ruel Tolkien
Жанр: Критика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Beowulf_-The-Monsters-and-The-Critics-192183.html
SIR ISRAEL GOLLANCZ LECTURE 1936Read 25 November 1936In 1864 the Reverend Oswald Cockayne wrote of the Reverend Doctor Joseph Bosworth, Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon: 'I have tried to lend to others the con-viction I have long entertained that Dr. Bosworth is not a man so diligent in his special walk as duly to read the books ... which have been printed in our old English, or so-called Anglosaxon tongue. He may do very well for a professor.'{1} These words were inspired by dissatisfaction with Bosworth's dictionary, and were doubtless unfair. If Bosworth were still alive, a modern Cockayne would probably accuse him of not reading the 'literature' of his subject, the books written about the books in the so-called Anglo-Saxon tongue. The original books are nearly buried.Of none is this so true as of The Beowulf, as it used to be called. I have, of course, read The Beowulf, as have most (but not all) of those who have criticized it. But I fear that, un
Навигация с клавиатуры: следующая страница - или ,
предыдущая -
