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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.


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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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A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate. 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.

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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
  • 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

About the author

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include Opened Ground, Electric Light, Beowulf, The Spirit Level, District and Circle, and Finders Keepers. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats."
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