Beowulf : a new verse translation / Seamus Heaney.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0393320979
- ISBN: 9780393320978
- Physical Description: xxx, 213 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Norton edition
- Publisher: New York ; W.W. Norton & Co., 2001.
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Introduction -- Note on names / Alfred David -- Beowulf -- Family trees -- Acknowledgements.
- Target Audience Note:
- 1090L Lexile
- Language Note:
- Text in English and Old English.
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- Subject:
- Epic poetry, English (Old)
Monsters > Poetry.
Dragons > Poetry.
Heroes > Scandinavia > Poetry. - Genre:
- Poetry.
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- 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marion Library | 829.3 BEO (Text) | 37810434651989 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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Summary:
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.
