Beowulf
Author(s): Seamus Heaney
"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.
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A bi-lingual edition of Seamus Heaney's prize-winning bestseller, Beowulf.
Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection, appeared in 1966, and since then he has published poetry, criticism and translations which have established him as one of the leading poets of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
General Fields
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- : Faber & Faber, Limited
- : Faber & Faber, Limited
- : 0.335
- : 01 March 2007
- : 216mm X 135mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Seamus Heaney
- : Paperback
- : Bilingual ed
- : English
- : 829.3
- : 208
- : Poetry texts & anthologies