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Beowulf (Paperback)
$19.62 - Save $1.04 (5%) - RRP $20.66 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for BeowulfComposed between the seventh and tenth centuries, this work is the 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. It is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and living on in the exhausted aftermath.
Full description- Publisher: Faber and Faber
- Published: 01 March 2007
- Format: Paperback 208 pages
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- Categories: Poetry | Poetry By Individual Poets
- ISBN 13: 9780571230419 ISBN 10: 0571230415
- Sales rank: 45,561
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Full description for Beowulf
"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.
