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Beowulf

By Seamus Heaney

Beowulf

By Seamus Heaney

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Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth century, is the elegaic 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2007-03-01
Publication Date:
2007-03-01
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0571230415
ISBN13:
9780571230419
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
324 g
Height:
139 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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