An edition of Beowulf (2000)

Beowulf

A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)

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An edition of Beowulf (2000)

Beowulf

A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)

  • 3.66 ·
  • 35 Ratings
  • 39 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 47 Have read

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.

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Cover of: Beowulf
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)
February 2001, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
Cover of: Beowulf
Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Norton Critical Editions)
December 2001, W. W. Norton
in English
Cover of: Beowulf
Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Norton Critical Editions)
December 2001, W. W. Norton
in English
Cover of: Beowulf
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)
February 2001, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
Cover of: Beowulf
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
February 1, 2001, Rebound by Sagebrush, Turtleback Books
Library Binding in English
Cover of: Beowulf
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
September 2000, Wheeler Publishing
Hardcover in English - Lrg edition
Cover of: Beowulf
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
February 15, 2000, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hardcover in English - Bilingual ed.

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"So. The Spear-Danes in days gone by and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness."

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OL7457254M
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beowulf00seam
ISBN 10
0393320979
ISBN 13
9780393320978
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8616582
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First Sentence

"So. The Spear-Danes in days gone by and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness."

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