Burton Raffel
Authors · linguist · literary scholar · translator · university teacher
American English professor, literary scholar and translator
About Burton Raffel
Burton Nathan Raffel (April 27, 1928 – September 29, 2015) 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.
Quick facts
- Known for
- Prentice Hall Literature--The British Tradition, Hamlet, Pure Pagan
- Born
- 1928-04-27
- Died
- 2015-09-29
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Books & published works
Prentice Hall Literature--The British Tradition
Hamlet
Pure Pagan
Pure Pagan
中国诗歌精华
Midsummer Night's Dream
Poems
Development of Modern Indonesian Poetry
My Shining Archipelago
Yvain
New York Jews and the Great Depression
Lancelot
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Anthology of modern Indonesian poetry
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (York Mediaeval Texts)
Beowulf Translated with an Introduction and Afterword by Burton
The development of modern Indonesian poetry
The Signet classic book of contemporary American short stories
How to Read a Poem
Beowulf
Sir gawain and the green knight. translated by
Introduction to poetry (A Mentor book MY 1076)
Mia poems
Forked Tongue
Beowulf with related readings
Yankee Doric
Beowulf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories
Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
Othello. the Annotated Shakespeare
Merchant of Venice
Hamlet. the Annotated Shakespeare
Macbeth. the Annotated Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Tempest, the. the Annotated Shakespeare
Candide
Perceval
Taming of the Shrew
Selected Poems
Poems and Prose from the Old English
Nibelungenlied
Beowulf
Zhongguo shi ge jing hua
Gems of Chinese poetry
Beowulf
From the Vietnamese
Beowulf
Beowulf
Introduction to poetry
Sir Gawain and the green knight
The Canterbury Tales
Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
Beowulf
American Victorians
The Annotated Milton
Anthology of Modern Indonesian
Artists all
The art of translating poetry
Beethoven in Denver, and other poems
Beowulf and Related Readings (Literature Connections)
Beowulf
Death of Aunt (Mentor Books)
The development of modern Indonesian poetry
The Essential Horace Odes, Epodes, Satires and Epistles (Essential Horace Cloth)
Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound, the prime minister of poetry
The forked tongue
From stress to stress
From the Vietnamese
How to Read a Poem (Meridian)
Introduction to poetry
Poems
Politicians, poets & con men
Robert Lowell
Russian poetry under the tsars
T.S. Eliot (Literature and Life)
The Art Of Translating Prose
Contemporary American Short Stories, The Signet Classic Book of
Das Nibelungenlied
Mia Poems
Possum and ole Ez in the public eye
How to read a poem
Poems from the Old English
T.S. Eliot
Anthology of modern Indonesian poetry
Beowulf.
Yankee Doric