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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

PAPERBACK

17 Feb, 2001

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes fro...

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ISBN-10:

0393320979

ISBN-13:

9780393320978

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Dimensions

8.30 X 6.12 X 0.69 inches

Language

English, Old (ca.450-1100)

Description

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface. Drawn to what he has called the "four-squareness of the utterance" in Beowulf and its immense emotional credibility, Heaney gives these epic qualities new and convincing reality for the contemporary reader.

Product Details

ISBN-10

:0393320979

ISBN-13

:9780393320978

Publisher

:W. W. Norton & Company

Publication date

: 17 Feb, 2001

Edition

:Bilingual edition

Category

: Poetry

Sub-Category

: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Format

:PAPERBACK

Language

:English, Old (ca.450-1100)

Reading Level

: All

No. of Units

:1

Dimension

: 8.30 X 6.12 X 0.69 inches

Weight

:272 g

Editorial Reviews

Excellent . . . has the virtue of being both dignified and sophisticated, making previous versions look slightly flowery and antique by comparison. His intelligence, fine ear and obvious love of the poem bring Beowulf alive as melancholy masterpiece, a complex Christian-pagan lament about duty, loss and transience. . . . Heaney has done it (and us) a great service.--Claire Harman "Evening Standard"
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