Beowulf : A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney (2000, Hardcover)

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Very Good: A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, ...
ISBN
9780374111199
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374111197
ISBN-13
9780374111199
eBay Product ID (ePID)
430137

Product Key Features

Book Title
Beowulf : a New Verse Translation
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Topic
Epic, Ancient & Classical
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Poetry
Author
Seamus Heaney
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
17.8 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in

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LCCN
99-023209
Reviews
"[Heaney is] the one living poet who can rightly claim to be the 'Beowulf' poet's heir." -- Edward Melson, The New York Times Book Review, "[Heaney is] the one living poet who can rightly claim to be the 'Beowulf' poet's heir."--Edward Melson, The New York Times Book Review
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
829/.3
Synopsis
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., 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.
LC Classification Number
PR1583.H43 2000

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