Beowulf
Composed towards the end of the first millennium, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is one of the great Northern epics and a classic of European literature. In his new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work which is both true, line by line, to the original poem, and an expression, in its language and music, of something fundamental to his own creative gift. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on, physically and psychically exposed, in that exhausted aftermath. It is not hard to draw parallels between this story and the history of th
Poetry
1 online resource (xxx, 106 pages) : genealogical
9781322375861, 9780571250721, 1322375860, 0571250726
897503523
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Originally published: 1999
Translated from the Anglo-Saxon
Translated from the Anglo-Saxon