Heaney, Seamus

Beowulf : a new verse translation / Seamus Heaney. - 1st Norton paperback ed. - New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Co., 2001. - xxx, 213 p. ; 21 cm.

Introduction -- Note on names / Alfred David -- Beowulf -- Family trees -- Acknowledgements.

"Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf 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 then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the end of the twentieth century, Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface." "Drawn to what he has called the "four-squareness of the utterance" in Beowulf and its immense emotional credibility, Heaney gives these epic qualities new and convincing reality for the contemporary reader."--BOOK JACKET.


Text in English and Old English.

ISBN: 0393320979 (pbk.) 0393320979 (pbk) 9780393320978 (pbk.) 0393320979

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Heroes
Epic poetry, English (Old)
Monsters

LC Class. No.: PR1583 PR1583 / .H43 2001 PR 1583 / .H43 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 829.3 829.3 829.3 BEO