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Beowulf - A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)

Beowulf - A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)

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Beowulf - A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)

by Heaney, Seamus

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9780374111199
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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000. 1st USA. hardback. Fine, d/j fully intact in protective cover. Pages bright and unmarked. A beautiful edition.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate.Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the 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.

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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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Title
Beowulf - A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)
Author
Heaney, Seamus
Format/Binding
Hardback
Book Condition
Used - Fine, d/j fully intact in protective cover. Pages bright and unmarked. A beautiful edition.
Quantity Available
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Edition
1st USA
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0374111197
ISBN 13
9780374111199
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2000
Pages
220
Keywords
poetry, anglo-saxon, translation, Nobel, Heaney
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0.57 g
Size
8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")

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