Beowulf, the primary epic of the English language, is a powerful heroic poem eloquently expressive of the Anglo-Saxon culture that produced it. In this beautiful book a designer, a poet, and a specialist in Anglo-Saxon literature recreate Beowulf for a modern audience. Interweaving evocative images, a new interpretation in verse, and a running commentary that helps clarify the action and setting of the poem as well as the imagery, the book brings new life to this ancient masterpiece. Randolph Swearer’s oblique and allusive images create an archaic, mysterious atmosphere by depicting in forms and shadows the world of Germanic antiquity―Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon art, artifacts, and scenery. At the same time, Raymond Oliver gives Beowulf a world in which to live, filling in the cultural gaps not with a thick matrix of footnotes but with poetry itself. Unlike many translations of Beowulf in existence, Oliver’s retelling of the epic uses modern verse forms for poetic effect and includes a wealth of historically authentic descriptions, characterizations, and explanations necessary for modern readers. Marijane Osborn completes the process of restoring context to the poem by supplying a commentary to clarify the historical and geographical dimensions of the story as well as the imagery that accompanies it. All three work together to bring a likeness of an old and elusive tale to today’s reader. “The book’s design and the commentary on it provide a unique visual complement to Oliver’s poem… A strange and moving story, compellingly told and seriously interesting to any serious reader of books.”―Fred C. Robinson, from the Introduction

Beowulf: A Likeness

Literature & Fiction

Oliver, Raymond

Osborn, Marijane

Swearer, Randolph

British & Irish

Yale University Press

Entries

Olympic Marketing Corp

Other times

R.L. Barth

Raymond Oliver, retired professor of English at U.C. Berkeley, is a native of New England who moved in his late teens to California. He has been a poet since early on, later confirming his vocation with a Stegner Fellowship under Yvor Winters at Stanford. He has published several books, including "Beowulf: A likeness", and individual poems widely in well-known periodicals. His primary medium is English, but he has also written a substantial number of poems in French and German; four of each are included in this collection. Mary Anne McPherson Oliver was born in Montgomery, Alabama. After graduating from Sweet Briar and the University of Alabama, she taught in France before going for graduate work in French to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she met Raymond. Mary Anne is a theologian and the first woman to receive her PhD from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. She is the author of "Conjugal Spirituality". Raymond Oliver strives to capture crystalline moments with his words. Every kind of reality is his quarry. Since meeting Mary Anne, she has increasingly become his muse. Her observations and insights, corrections and comments have been his touchstones, guiding him closer to the beauty of all there is. Without her there is the risk of nothingness. With her, there is everything. These poems are dedicated to her.

The Last Saturday in September: poems for and about Mary Anne, from Ray

Poetry

Independently published

Greeting the End of Time

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Resource Publications

This is a book of poems on Christian or Christian-compatible themes; they render my personal experiences with Christianity as honestly as possible, or have to do with ideas, historical matters, doctrines, etc.

Resource Publications (CA)

Doctor in the Navy

The Book Guild Ltd.

"Short. Quick. Entertaining. A marvelously fun read!" Raymond Oliver, then the Curator for the McClellan Aviation Museum (now the Aerospace Museum of California), was once asked by a colonel why her title was pronounced "kernal" and where her eagle insignia originated? That simple question began a quest to trace the development of various categories of rank. What began as a paper, however, soon developed into a booklet, which eventually wound up as this book. Have you ever asked yourself questions like: Why is Colonel pronounced "kernal"? Why does a Lieutenant General outrank a Major General? Why is Navy Captain a higher rank than Army-Air Force-Marine Captain? Why do Sergeants wear chevrons? If you are in the military, this book will give you a deeper appreciation for your rank and insignia-and you might find yourself wearing it with even more pride. If you have not been in the service, or are a family member of one who is, this book might help to put an historical perspective on the often confusing layers of rank. Either way: military, ex-military, soon-to-be military, friend or family... it's a delight!

Why Is a Colonel Called a "Kernal"?: The Origin of American Ranks and Insignia

History

Military

Fireship Pr

This highly unusual book is a sequence of actual letters exchanged by two young men coming of age in the late 1950s and â€™60s. They are well-educated, intellectually eager, self-absorbed but also self-aware, and both go on to distinguished careers in the world of letters and scholarship. It is a candid and spirited relationship focused on their shared interest in reading, writing, ideas, and young women. In some ways, the creators of this joint memoir can be seen as members of a distinct cultural group, but their subjects transcend background and class, as does the honesty of their exchange through crisscrossing viewpoints and eras. Their letters trace two arcs of developmentâ€”sometimes congruent, sometimes divergentâ€”intersecting as each writer acts to intervene in and shape the otherâ€™s life. Their exchanges are crammed with descriptions, wordplays, wisecracks, opinions, judgments, jokes, commiserations, exultationsâ€”whatever can be spewed forth from two loose and lively minds. And interspersed with the record of what they said â€œthenâ€ is the leavening of â€œnow,â€ as both writers look back in reflective comment on their half-forgotten selvesâ€”modern testimony to the lasting friendship of two people most unlike each other and yet similar in ways at their deepest core.

Two Smart Boys

Jenness, David

Memoirs

Terra Nova Books

Cuisine insolite

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Mose

Quick & Easy

EPURE

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