This single volume represents all the surviving 31,000 lines of Old English poetry in translation. It’s a big book, but this is a virtue, and it will be very handy for scholars and students. Although ...
Olga Rudge, a violinist who became Pound’s companion in his later years, greeted me at her door in Rapallo with ‘Mr Beowulf, I presume.’ I asked the poet if he would accept the dedication of my book.