Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
by Seamus Heaney
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0374111197
- ISBN 13
- 9780374111199
- Seller
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Fitzroy North, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Hardback, as new. First Edition, fourteenth printing. With the original Anglo-Saxon text one one page and the modern translation facing.
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).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bob's Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 76
- Title
- Beowulf
- Author
- Seamus Heaney
- Format/Binding
- Tight
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First, 14th printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374111197
- ISBN 13
- 9780374111199
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- February 15, 2000
- Pages
- 213
- Keywords
- Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Hotham Books;
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