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Beowulf : a new verse translation / [translated by] Seamus Heaney.
"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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0374111197
- ISBN: 9780374111199
- Physical Description: xxx, 213 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: 1st edition
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Translated from Old English by Seamus Heaney. Publisher's statement precedes place of publication on imprint. Copyright statement dated on title page verso. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | A note on names / by Alfred David -- Beowulf -- Family trees. |
| Language Note: | Text in English and Old English |
| Awards Note: | Winner of the Whitbread award. |
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| Subject: | Beowulf, King of the Geats > Poetry. Grendel (Monster) > Poetry. Epic poetry, English (Old) Monsters > Poetry. Dragons > Poetry. Heroes > Scandinavia > Poetry. Scandinavia > Poetry. |
| Genre: | Epic poetry. Poetry. |
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| 250 | . | ‡a1st edition | |
| 260 | . | ‡aNew York : ‡bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, ‡c1999. | |
| 300 | . | ‡axxx, 213 pages ; ‡c24 cm | |
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| 500 | . | ‡aTranslated from Old English by Seamus Heaney. | |
| 500 | . | ‡aPublisher's statement precedes place of publication on imprint. | |
| 500 | . | ‡aCopyright statement dated on title page verso. | |
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| 546 | . | ‡aText in English and Old English | |
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