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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)

By Seamus Heaney

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
0393320979, 9780393320978, 9780585281780, 9781551111896, 1551111896
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1911961 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
215\126
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

"A faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right." —New York Times Book ReviewThe national bestseller and winner of the Whitbread Award. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the classic Northern epic of a hero’s triumphs as a young warrior and his fated death as a defender of his people. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on, physically and psychically exposed in the exhausted aftermath. It is not hard to draw parallels in this story to the historical curve of consciousness in the twentieth century, but the poem also transcends such considerations, telling us psychological and spiritual truths that are permanent and liberating.

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