Beowulf: A Verse Translation

Author(s): Michael Alexander (Translator, Introduction by); Penguin Group (UK) Staff

Classics

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Michael Alexander is Berry Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews. For Penguin he has translated, 'The Earliest English Poems', 'The Canterbury Tales: The First Fragment', as well as a prose translation of BEOWULF. Michael Alexander is Berry Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews. For Penguin he has translated, 'The Earliest English Poems', 'The Canterbury Tales: The First Fragment', as well as a prose translation of BEOWULF.

General Fields

  • : 9780140449310
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 0.158757
  • : January 2003
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 12mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Michael Alexander (Translator, Introduction by); Penguin Group (UK) Staff
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 829/.3
  • : 192
  • : genealogy tables, maps