Burton raffle biography
Burton raffle biography...
Burton raffel biography
Burton Raffel
American writer
Burton Raffel | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1928-04-27)April 27, 1928 New York City, New York |
| Died | September 29, 2015(2015-09-29) (aged 87) Lafayette, Louisiana |
| Occupation | Writer, translator |
| Nationality | American |
| Notable works | Beowulf translation |
Burton Nathan Raffel (April 27, 1928 – September 29, 2015) was an American writer, translator, poet and professor.
He is best known for his vigorous[1] translation of Beowulf, still widely used in universities, colleges and high schools. Other important translations include Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, Poems and Prose from the Old English, The Voice of the Night: Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar, The Essential Horace, Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel and Dante's The Divine Comedy.[2]
Biography
Raffel was born in New York City in 1928.[3] An alumnus of James Madison High School in Brooklyn, New York (1944), Raffel was edu