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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
Contributor(s): Heaney, Seamus (Editor)
ISBN: 0393320979     ISBN-13: 9780393320978
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE:   $14.36  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2001
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Annotation: Composed toward the end of the first millennium, "Beowulf" is the classic Northern epic of a hero's triumphs as a young warrior and his fated death as a defender of his people. In his new translation--a national bestseller that is the winner of the Whitbread Award--Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney has produced a work that is both true, line by line, to the original poem and a fundamental expression of his own creative gift. (Poetry)
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Poetry | Medieval
- Poetry | Ancient & Classical
Dewey: 829.3
LCCN: 99023209
Lexile Measure: 1090
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.12" W x 8.3" (0.60 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453)
- Cultural Region - Scandinavian
 
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Composed toward the end of the first millennium, 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 beginning of the twenty-first century, Nobel laureate 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.


Contributor Bio(s): Heaney, Seamus: - Seamus Heaney (1939--2013) was an Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer and recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born at Mossbawn farmhouse between Castledawson and Toomebridge, County Derry, he resided in Dublin until his death.