Parallel Text Editions

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Parallel Text Editions

1RickartAllen
Apr 21, 6:59 pm

I was happy to learn from a link of "FitzJames" in the Summer 2026 Speculation thread that the coming edition of The Wanderer will have parallel texts, on the left side Old English, on the right, a modern translation.

I know of only a few Folio editions having original language paired with a modern English translation. Those I own are

The Odes of Horace
Beowulf
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Troilus & Creseide
Dante's Vita Nuova

I recall a few others offered in Limited Editions --The Poetic Edda, the fragments of Sappho's poetry, Selections from the Greek Anthology.

Are there any others I've missed?

And what else might we like to see published? (I think poetry, especially, gains from this.)

2CJDelDotto
Apr 21, 7:05 pm

If Not, Winter: Fragments by Sappho (translated by Anne Carson)

3Betelgeuse
Edited: Apr 21, 7:14 pm

William Langland's The Vision of Piers the Plowman (Middle English on one side, E. Talbot Donaldson was the translator).

4Andrew14
Apr 22, 2:17 am

Wagner's 'Ring of the Nibelung' (German on one side, translated by Stewart Spencer)

5zorg2099
Apr 22, 3:30 am

I've seen texts like these commonly referred to as "facing page translations".

6assemblyman
Apr 22, 3:43 am

Folio Fine Press series: Dorset Poems, Anglo-Saxon Elegies, Poems from the Greek Anthology.

7affle
Apr 22, 5:08 am

Poems of Catullus; Helen Waddell’s Songs of the Wandering Scholars