Reconstructing the Rhythm of Beowulf

Download or read book Reconstructing the Rhythm of Beowulf written by Robert Payson Creed and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creed, known for his radio dramatizations of Beowulf, returned to the manuscript of the poem to revise the conventional modern construction of the lines, and thereby the rhythm and meaning. Realizing that the scribe recorded only written syllables, he recognized the metrical importance of the unwritten silences (or instrument strums). He also hypothesizes of alliterating words that encode cultural truths from centuries before and parallel modern theories of speech production and the brain. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR