I watched Beowulf over the weekend. You know, the animation over live actors written by Neil Gaiman and directed by Robert Zemeckis. I enjoyed the movie and thought it was pretty good. And it got me to thinking about the poem and to the copy I have from Easton Press.
Easton Press’s edition is the translation by William Ellery Leonard a Professor of Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and surprisingly born in Plainfield, NJ (I grew up a town over). It also has illustrations by Lynd Ward. Yes Easton Press tends to you previously published translations and art work since it decreases their cost. But this doenst’ take away from the production quality of the book.
