Beowulf : a new verse translation / Seamus Heaney.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, English, Old (ca. 450-1100) Original language: English, Old (ca. 450-1100) Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000Copyright date: Edition: First bilingual editionDescription: xxx, 213 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0374111197
  • 9780374111199
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 829/.3 21
LOC classification:
  • PR1583 .H43 2000
Online resources:
Contents:
A note on names / by Alfred David -- Beowulf -- Family trees.
Awards:
  • Winner of the Whitbread award.
Summary: 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.
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Translated from Old English by Seamus Heaney. Text in English and Old English.

A note on names / by Alfred David -- Beowulf -- Family trees.

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.

Winner of the Whitbread award.

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