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Beowulf

a new verse translation

1st bilingual ed.

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Cover of: Beowulf by Seamus Heaney, Seamus Heaney
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An edition of Beowulf (2000)

Beowulf

a new verse translation

1st bilingual ed.

by

  • 2 Want to read
  • 1 Have read

Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, 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 end of the twentieth century, 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.

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Language
English
Pages
256

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Subjects

Open Library Staff Picks, Poetry, Dragons, Epic poetry, English (Old), Heroes, Monsters

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Cover of: Beowulf
Beowulf: a new verse translation
February 15, 2000, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Hardcover in English - 1st bilingual ed.
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Edition Notes

Text in English and Old English.

Published in
New York
Genre
Poetry.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
829/.3
Library of Congress
PR1583 .H43 2000

Contributors

Translator
Seamus Heaney

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xxx, 256 p. ;
Number of pages
256
Dimensions
6.3 x 0.9 x 9.3 inches
Weight
1.1 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL36885M
Internet Archive
beowulfnewverset00hean
ISBN 10
0374111197
LCCN
99023209
Library Thing
8616582
Goodreads
270166

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