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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation Hardcover - 2000
by Seamus Heaney
This brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic has been revamped for the contemporary reader by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney.
About this book
Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth centuries, 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 returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid battle against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and living on in the exhausted aftermath. Heaney's celebrated translation honours what is remote and intuits what is uncannily familiar, at the end of the twentieth century, in this founding masterpiece of English poetry. Now, for the first time, the Old English text - which survived only in a single scorched manuscript, now held in the British Museum - can be read in conjunction with the translation on facing pages. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-255).
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- Title Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
- Author Seamus Heaney
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, New York
- Date 2000-02-15
- ISBN 9780374111199 / 0374111197
- Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
- Dimensions 9.42 x 6.24 x 0.99 in (23.93 x 15.85 x 2.51 cm)
- Reading level 1090
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Cultural Region: British
- Cultural Region: Scandinavian
- Library of Congress subjects Dragons, Monsters
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99-23209
- Dewey Decimal Code 829.3
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Citations
- Booklist, 02/15/2000, Page 1073
- Commonweal, 12/01/2000, Page 22
- Entertainment Weekly, 03/31/2000, Page 65
- Kirkus Reviews, 03/15/2000, Page 345
- Library Journal, 12/01/1999, Page 132
- LJ Best Books of Year, 01/01/2001, Page 52
- New York Times, 06/04/2000, Page 40
- Publishers Weekly, 02/21/2000, Page 84
- Time, 12/18/2000, Page 93
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