Burton Raffel
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American English professor, literary scholar and translator
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Burton Nathan Raffel was an American writer, translator, poet and professor. He is best known for his vigorous translation of Beowulf, still widely used in universities, colleges and high schools. Other important translations include Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, Poems and Prose from the Old English, The Voice of the Night: Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar, The Essential Horace, Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel and Dante's The Divine Comedy.
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Published Works
- Modern Indonesian Literature (1967) (53)
- Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese poetry (1976) (40)
- The Art of Translating Poetry (1989) (26)
- The Art of Translating Prose (1988) (25)
- Beowulf; A New Translation (1964) (23)
- Artists All: Creativity, the University, and the World@@@Colors of the Mind: Conjectures on Thinking in Literature (1991) (17)
- The complete poetry and prose of Chairil Anwar (1970) (14)
- Poems and Prose from the Old English (2017) (14)
- The song of the Cid : a dual-language edition with parallel text (2009) (13)
- Poems from the old English (1964) (10)
- The Negritude Poets: An Anthology of Translations from the French (1975) (10)
- The Forked Tongue: A Study of the Translation Process (1975) (9)
- The development of modern Indonesian poetry (1967) (9)
- Genre to the rear, race and gender to the fore: the novels of Octavia E. Butler (1995) (8)
- Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich Mandelstam (1973) (8)
- A Thousand Years of Vietnamese Poetry (1975) (7)
- The Voice of the Night: Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar (1993) (6)
- The forked tongue : a study of the translation process (1972) (6)
- Das Nibelungenlied : Song of the Nibelungs (2006) (6)
- Anthology of modern Indonesian poetry (1964) (5)
- Horace. The Art of Poetry (1976) (5)
- The Manner of Boyan: Translating Oral Literature (1986) (5)
- Don Quijote : a new translation, backgrounds and contexts, criticism (1999) (5)
- From stress to stress : an autobiography of English prosody (1992) (3)
- Shakespeare and the Catholic question (1998) (3)
- The Unwritten Song: Poetry of the Primitive and Traditional Peoples of the World. I: The Far North, Africa, Indonesia, Melanesia, Australia (1967) (3)
- Ezra Pound, the prime minister of poetry (1984) (3)
- The Subjective Element in Translation (1981) (2)
- Mary Barnard's Sappho (1965) (2)
- The essential Horace : odes, epodes, satires, and epistles (1983) (2)
- Sawyer's review of artists all (1994) (1)
- The Body of Man (1975) (1)
- Robert Lowell's Imitations (1980) (1)
- American Victorians: Explorations in Emotional History (1984) (1)
- The forked tongue (1971) (1)
- "On the Death of a Fair Infant": Date and Subject (2000) (1)
- How to Read a Poem (1984) (1)
- Music, Poetry, and Translation (1964) (1)
- Some Basic Principles of Translation: A Structure Erected on a Foundation (1988) (1)
- Selected Poems: Chairil Anwar (1966) (1)
- Burton Raffel (1995): Chapters 70, 74 (2001) (0)
- The poems of Alamgir Hashmi (1994) (0)
- Yakshi from Didarganj (1970) (0)
- The Art of Translating Poetry@@@The Craft of Translation (1991) (0)
- Wine: Riddle #11 (1960) (0)
- Emotional History: An Exploratory Essay (2010) (0)
- Indonesia and the Nobel Prize (1967) (0)
- How To Read a Translation: Poetry (2016) (0)
- Henry the Fourth, Part One (2006) (0)
- TRANSLATOR’S NOTES (2017) (0)
- Asian and African Studies (1976) (0)
- Translator’s Note (2017) (0)
- SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS: TOUCHSTONE OF THE ENGLISH LYRIC TRADITION (2000) (0)
- Early imitations of immorality: The poetry of Sheryl St. Germain (1993) (0)
- A Comment on "Sound Effects" (Review) (1995) (0)
- The Complete Works of Francois Rabelais@@@Gargantua and Pantagruel (1995) (0)
- Ego and Other Poems (1979) (0)
- Publisher's choice : ten short story discoveries by the editors of Scribners (1967) (0)
- Alberta Joy Freidus, Sumatran Contributions to the Development of Indonesian Literature, 1920-1942. Univ. Press of Hawaii, 1977, $4,75, paper, 66 + x pp (1980) (0)
- Book reviews (1990) (0)
- Scholars and Teachers of What?: “True Humanistic Learning Aims at Stretching the Mind, Not at Stocking it” (1964) (0)
- Père Goriot : a new translation : responses, contemporaries and other novelists, twentieth-century criticism (1998) (0)
- The signet classic book of contemporary American short stories (1985) (0)
- Translator's Preface (2017) (0)
- A lost poem by Chairil Anwar (1995) (0)
- Translations from St. John of the Cross (1965) (0)
- Russian Poetry under the Tsars@@@Selected Works of Nikolai S. Gumilev (1973) (0)
- Poetics and Translation Studies (2004) (0)
- The Blindness of a Rose (1998) (0)
- Possum and ole Ez in the public eye : contemporaries and peers on T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, 1892-1972 (1985) (0)
- A Ship: Riddle #32 (1960) (0)
- TO THE READER (2017) (0)
- The Moon and the Sun: Riddle #29 (1960) (0)
- A Jay's Spring Song: Riddle #8 (1960) (0)
- The Development of Modern Indonesian Poetry.@@@An Anthology of Modern Indonesian Poetry. (1969) (0)
- Ballads and blues: Poems : translated from Indonesian (1974) (0)
- Book Reviews : Alberta Joy Freidus, Sumatran Contributions to the Development of Indonesian Litera ture, 1920-1942. Univ. Press of Hawaii, 1977, $4,75, paper, 66 + x pp (1980) (0)
- Introduction to Poetry (1972) (0)
- The Reed: Riddle #60: (Probably a Love Message Carved into a Reed) (1960) (0)
- Don Quijote : A New Translation , Backgrounds , Contexts and Criticism (2001) (0)
- Mandel'shtam Rediscovered@@@Mandelstam@@@The Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich Mandelstam (1974) (0)
- Words of Paradise: Poetry of Papua New Guinea (1973) (0)
- The Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories (1985) (0)
- New Poems, Ancient and Modern (1965) (0)
- Selected Work of Nikolai S. Gumilev (1973) (0)
- Vietnamese Folk Poetry (1975) (0)
- Presidential Removal Power: The Role of the Supreme Court (1958) (0)
- The translation of poetry (1991) (0)
- English Prose for the English Novel: The Beginnings (1984) (0)
- Poems : an anthology (1971) (0)
- Mandelstam@@@Osip Mandelstam: Selected Poems@@@Osip Mandel'shtam: Selected Poems@@@Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich Mandelstam@@@Chapter 42 by Nadezhda Mandel'shtam and the Goldfinch by Osip Mandel'shtam (1974) (0)
- Some tax aspects of foreign currencies (1959) (0)
- HAMLET AND THE TRADITION OF THE NOVEL (1996) (0)
- Politicians, Poets, and Con Men: Emotional History in Late Victorian America (1987) (0)
- Introducing Kendall Delcambre (1999) (0)
- Scholars and Teachers of What (1964) (0)
- Beowulf : a new translation with an introduction (1963) (0)
- Utterances Stanza Utterances Phenomena Explanation Indonesia English First (2018) (0)
- Translator's Preface (2017) (0)
- A Horn: Riddle #14 (1960) (0)
- Who heard the rhymes, and how : Shakespeare's dramaturgical signals (1996) (0)
- Why Re-Create? A Conversation About Translation with Burton Raffel. The National Humanities Faculty Why Series. (1973) (0)
- Russian Poetry under the Tsars: An Anthology (1972) (0)
- On Watching the Construction of a Skyscraper (1960) (0)
- The Diary of George Templeton Strong (review) (2010) (0)
- Letters to the Editor (2015) (0)
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