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Can you reccomend good examples of alliteration in poetry or books?
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Anonymous 2016-06-02 00:08:47 Post No. 8111461 [Report]
Can you reccomend good examples of alliteration in poetry or books?
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Anonymous 2016-06-02 00:20:22 Post No.8111504
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Anonymous 2016-06-02 00:20:22 Post No.8111504 [Report]
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
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Anonymous 2016-06-02 00:21:23 Post No.8111507
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Anonymous 2016-06-02 00:21:23 Post No.8111507 [Report]
Why is everyone obsessed with this fucking word?
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Anonymous 2016-06-02 00:23:06 Post No.8111516
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Anonymous 2016-06-02 00:23:06 Post No.8111516 [Report]
>>8111507
Which word?
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kitty (ID: !kitty/EnNg) 2016-06-02 00:27:41 Post No.8111530
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kitty (ID: !kitty/EnNg) 2016-06-02 00:27:41 Post No.8111530 [Report]
>>8111461
obligatory beowulf

or for something very intolerant - the siege of jerusalem (you can read it without translation with notes)
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Anonymous 2016-06-02 00:33:05 Post No.8111551
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Anonymous 2016-06-02 00:33:05 Post No.8111551 [Report]
>>8111530
I want to read Beowulf. Any advice for which translation I should get?

I've read a lot of Tolkien and Heaney, and I'm swaying towards the latter.
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kitty (ID: !kitty/EnNg) 2016-06-02 00:37:09 Post No.8111569
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kitty (ID: !kitty/EnNg) 2016-06-02 00:37:09 Post No.8111569 [Report]
>>8111551
http://www.editoreric.com/greatlit/translations/Beowulf.html

has samples and stuff

i personally read rebsamen's, i don't care of some hack heaney and tolkien's one wasn't released then (also it's not really that good imo)
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Anonymous 2016-06-02 00:37:15 Post No.8111570
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Anonymous 2016-06-02 00:37:15 Post No.8111570 [Report]
>>8111461

nabokov
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Anonymous 2016-06-02 01:37:46 Post No.8111820
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Anonymous 2016-06-02 01:37:46 Post No.8111820 [Report]
>>8111551
>>8111569

>wants to read Beowulf
>first instinct is to look for a translation

why live :c
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