TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heaney,Seamus
TI  - Beowulf: a new verse translation 
SN  - 0374111197
AV  - PR1583 .H43 2000
U1  - 829/.3 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
KW  - Beowulf,
KW  - Grendel
KW  - Epic poetry, English (Old)
KW  - Monsters
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Dragons
KW  - Monstres
KW  - POETRY / Epic
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POETRY / Ancient & Classical
KW  - fast
KW  - Heroes and heroines
KW  - sears
KW  - Epic poetry
KW  - Scandinavia
KW  - epic literature
KW  - aat
KW  - epic poems
KW  - poetry
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - A note on names; by Alfred David --; Beowulf --; Family trees
N2  - 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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