- Burton Raffel
Burton Raffel (born 1928) is a
translator , a poet and a teacher. He has translated many poems, including the Anglo-Saxon epic "Beowulf ", poems byHorace , and "Gargantua and Pantagruel " byFrançois Rabelais . In 1996, he published his translation ofMiguel de Cervantes ' "Don Quixote ", which has been acclaimed for making Cervantes more accessible to the modern generation. In 2006, Yale University Press published his new translation of theNibelungenlied .Among his many edited and translated publications are "Poems and Prose from the Old English", and
Chrétien de Troyes ' "Cligès ", "Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart ", "Perceval, the Story of the Grail ", "Erec and Enide ", and "Yvain, the Knight of the Lion ". Raffel is also a poet in his own right; over the years he has published numerous volumes of it; however, only one remains in print: "Beethoven in Denver". "Beethoven" describes what happens when the dead composer visitsDenver, Colorado in the late 1970s. Also set in Colorado was the Raffel-scripted film, "The Legend of Alfred Packer ", the first film version of the story ofAlferd Packer . Burton Raffel was the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities and emeritus professor of English at theUniversity of Louisiana at Lafayette until 2003. Raffel is currently working with Yale Press on a series of 14 annotatedShakespeare plays. In 2008 the Modern Library will publish his new translation ofGeoffrey Chaucer 's "The Canterbury Tales ".References
* [http://www.penguin.ca/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000026448,00.html "Burton Raffel"] . Penguin.ca. Retrieved
October 25 ,2004 .
* [http://english.louisiana.edu/fac-and-staff/emeritus/raffel.shtml Burton Raffel] at The University of Louisiana.
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