Beowulf : a new verse translation

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Label

Beowulf : a new verse translation

Title remainder

a new verse translation

Statement of responsibility

Seamus Heaney

Creator

• Beowulf

Contributor

• Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013

Subject

• Dragons -- Poetry
• Epic poetry, English (Old)
• Grendel, (Monster) -- Poetry
• Heroes -- Scandinavia -- Poetry
• Monsters -- Poetry
• Poetry

Genre

• Poetry

Language

• eng
• ang
• ang
• eng

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
• "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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

829/.3

Illustrations

genealogical tables

Index

no index present

Language note

Text Old English with English translations on facing pages

LC call number

PE1583

LC item number

.H43 2000

Literary form

non fiction