Sigurd’s Lament An Alliterative Epic
Sigurd’s Lament An Alliterative Epic by Benjamin John Peters, published by Cascade Books in 2017, presents a unique exploration of scholarship and poetry. This 223-page work features the translation of a Welsh epic into the alliterative meter of the English Revival, curated by mid-twentieth-century scholar Hawthorne Basil Peters. The book includes not only the full poem but also a historic introduction, commentary, and academic apparatus, offering readers insight into the translation process and the scholarly context surrounding it.
Readers will find that Sigurd’s Lament challenges conventional approaches to literature and academia by emphasizing the flexibility of language. The text invites engagement with its layers of meaning, as it intertwines the poem with footnotes that hint at deeper narratives. Peters encourages readers to immerse themselves in this complex work, which balances serious themes with a playful approach to language and storytelling. The edition is presented in English, making it accessible to a wide audience interested in poetry and European literary traditions.
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In literature, the advice often given is to show and not tell. In academia, it is the opposite: tell and do not show. Sigurd’s Lament is a text that asks the question, can scholarship show rather than tell? On the surface, it is the collected work of a mid-twentieth-century scholar, Hawthorne Basil Peters, who has curated the life’s work of his father–the translation of a Welsh epic into the alliterative meter of the English Revival. The poem is produced in full, but so too is the historic introduction, commentary, and academic apparatus. Peters, for the first time, shares with the world his father’s wonderful translation and his previously unpublished academic ideas. In a text rife with distention, however, Peters draws the reader’s attention to the unexpected flexibility of language and asks only one thing in return: drink deeply. For Sigurd’s Lament is a text of the most serious play. It is ambiguous and obfuscating and riddled with footnotes that have lurking within them–like goblins in the weeds–future tales of past narratives.
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