Description: New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award. 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. Contains original language on one side (Anglo-Saxon/Old English) and English translation on the other
Price: 17 USD
Location: Virginia
End Time: 2025-01-24T02:20:12.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Narrative Type: Fiction
Original Language: Old English
Book Title: Beowulf a New Verse Translation Bilingual Edition
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Publication Year: 2001
Item Height: 0.7 in
Topic: Epic, Ancient & Classical, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Features: Reprint
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 9.1 Oz
Author: Seamus Heaney
Item Length: 8.3 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
