Beowulf : a new verse translation
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PR1583 .H43 1999
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xxx, 213 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English

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Translated from Old English by Seamus Heaney.
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Publisher's statement precedes place of publication on imprint.
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Copyright statement dated on title page verso.
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"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" -- Book jacket.
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Text in English and Old English
Awards
Winner of the Whitbread award.
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SACFinal081324

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Heaney, S. (2000). Beowulf: a new verse translation (First bilingual edition). Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013. 2000. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Heaney, S. (2000). Beowulf: a new verse translation. First bilingual edn New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Heaney, Seamus. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation First bilingual edition, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000.

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