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Beowulf.
by HEANEY, Seamus (trans.)
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber,, 1999. First edition, first impression, signed by Heaney on the title page, of his translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic. Dedicated to the memory of Ted Hughes, it won the 1999 Whitbread Book of the Year award. This copy has a contemporary gift inscription to George Bain on the title page. Bain was Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast, where he opened The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry in 2004. Octavo. Original dark blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, orange endpapers. With dust jacket. Head of spine lightly bumped, small mark to fore edge of rear board; unclipped jacket spine panel gently sunned, minor creasing to top edge: a near-fine copy in like jacket. Brandes & Durkan A72a.
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 171416
- Title
- Beowulf.
- Author
- HEANEY, Seamus (trans.)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Faber & Faber,
- Date Published
- 1999
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Peter Harrington
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About Peter Harrington
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