Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
by Heaney, Seamus
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374111197
- ISBN 13
- 9780374111199
- Seller
-
Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Synopsis
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. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-255).
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Pulp & Circumstance (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000447
- Title
- Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
- Author
- Heaney, Seamus
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0374111197
- ISBN 13
- 9780374111199
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Pages
- 213
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Ancient, Classical & Medieval", "English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
- X weight
- 0 lbs
Terms of Sale
Pulp & Circumstance
About the Seller
Pulp & Circumstance
About Pulp & Circumstance
P&C strives to ensure that all items are clean and fairly described. Packages will be wrapped with care and dispatched as soon as feasible, usually on the next business day.
We do not use stock photos. All our photos are of the actual item offered for sale. We try to include the publishers' own descriptions of content by including photos of dust jacket flaps and back covers so far as they seem useful, and we also use photos to show material flaws where we can.
The "Pulp & Circumstance" watermark you might notice in some of our photos does not, of course, appear on any of the items themselves.
Please note that the colour in our photos often fails to come out right. The hue shifts a bit due to the limitations of our equipment, the lighting in our workshop, and of course my own lack of photographic expertise.
Shipping costs per book are always cheaper when more than one book is sent in the same package. Read more about shipping charges in "Terms of Sale" below.
Feel free to ask any questions you might have by email. We will usually respond within 24 hours. Happy browsing!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....