Beowulf : a new verse translation /
Beowulf : a new verse translation /
Seamus Heaney.
- First bilingual edition.
- xxx, 213 pages ; 24 cm
A note on names / Beowulf -- Family trees. by Alfred David --
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.--Book jacket.
Translated from Old English by Seamus Heaney. Text in English and Old English.
Winner of the Whitbread award.
0374111197 9780374111199
Farrar Straus & Giroux, C/O Vhps Holtzbrinck Pub 16365 James Madison Hwy, Gordonsville, VA, USA, 22942, (540)6727600 SAN 631-5011
99023209
Beowulf, King of the Geats --Poetry.
Grendel (Monster) --Poetry.
Beowulf, King of the Geats.
Grendel (Monster)
Epic poetry, English (Old)
Monsters--Poetry.
Dragons--Poetry.
Dragons--Poetry.
Monstres--
Dragons--
POETRY / Epic.
POETRY / Ancient & Classical.
Dragons.
Epic poetry, English (Old)
Monsters.
Heroes and heroines--Poetry.
Monsters--Poetry.
Dragons--Poetry.
Epic poetry.
Scandinavia--Poetry.
Scandinavia--Poetry.
Scandinavia.
epic literature.
epic poems.
poetry.
Epic poetry.
Poetry.
Epic poetry.
Poetry.
PR1583 / .H43 2000
829/.3
A note on names / Beowulf -- Family trees. by Alfred David --
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.--Book jacket.
Translated from Old English by Seamus Heaney. Text in English and Old English.
Winner of the Whitbread award.
0374111197 9780374111199
Farrar Straus & Giroux, C/O Vhps Holtzbrinck Pub 16365 James Madison Hwy, Gordonsville, VA, USA, 22942, (540)6727600 SAN 631-5011
99023209
Beowulf, King of the Geats --Poetry.
Grendel (Monster) --Poetry.
Beowulf, King of the Geats.
Grendel (Monster)
Epic poetry, English (Old)
Monsters--Poetry.
Dragons--Poetry.
Dragons--Poetry.
Monstres--
Dragons--
POETRY / Epic.
POETRY / Ancient & Classical.
Dragons.
Epic poetry, English (Old)
Monsters.
Heroes and heroines--Poetry.
Monsters--Poetry.
Dragons--Poetry.
Epic poetry.
Scandinavia--Poetry.
Scandinavia--Poetry.
Scandinavia.
epic literature.
epic poems.
poetry.
Epic poetry.
Poetry.
Epic poetry.
Poetry.
PR1583 / .H43 2000
829/.3