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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Heaney, Seamus is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
"A faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right." —*New York Times Book Review * The national bestseller and winner of the Whitbread Award. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the classic Northern epic of a hero’s triumphs as a young warrior and his fated death as a defender of his people. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on, physically and psychically exposed in the exhausted aftermath. It is not hard to draw parallels in this story to the historical curve of consciousness in the twentieth century, but the poem also transcends such considerations, telling us psychological and spiritual truths that are permanent and liberating. Amazon.com Review In Beowulf warriors must back up their mead-hall boasts with instant action, monsters abound, and fights are always to the death. The Anglo-Saxon epic, composed between the 7th and 10th centuries, has long been accorded its place in literature, though its hold on our imagination has been less secure. In the introduction to his translation, Seamus Heaney argues that Beowulf 's role as a required text for many English s
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- Author
- Heaney, Seamus
- Publisher
- Broadview Literary Press
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781416500377
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Poetry, Literary Fiction, Fiction