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Beowulf
A bilingual edition of Heaney's prize-winning bestseller, Beowulf.
A bi-lingual edition of Seamus Heaney's prize-winning bestseller, Beowulf.
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Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth century, 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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Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf is lauded for its intelligence and sensitivity, enlivening the ancient text as a poignant meditation on themes such as duty, glory, and loss. Critics admire his ability to balance the Christian and pagan elements while making the language vividly current. The translation is praised as a masterpiece, skillfully bridging historical and modern contexts.
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ISBN: 9780571230419
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 March 2007
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main - bilingual edition
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 137.0mm
Height: 217.0mm
Weight: 330g
Pages: 256
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About the Author
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. District and Cirle is his twelfth collection of poems, and his first new collection for five years.
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