Beowulf
Content:
Beowulf
Original language:
Old English
Translator:
Seamus Heaney
Publication:
1999 by Faber & Faber (London)
Genre:
Adventure, Classic Literature, Historic Tales and Legends, Mythology, Poetry
Pages:
256
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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 beginning of the twenty-first century, Seamus Heaney finds a reasonance 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.
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Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition 
Reprinted in 2007 by W.W. Norton & Company Inc
Available formats: Paperback
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John D. Niles, a specialist in Old English literature, provides visual counterparts to Heaney's remarkable translation. More than one hundred full-page illustrations―Viking warships, chain mail, lyres, spearheads, even a reconstruction of the Great Hall―make visible Beowulf's world and the elemental themes of his story: death, divine power, horror, heroism, disgrace, devotion, and fame. This mysterious world is now transformed into one of material splendor as readers view its elegant goblets, dragon images, and finely crafted gold jewelry against the backdrop of the Danish landscape of its origins. (80 color and 41 black-and-white illustrations)
**This illustrated edition includes photographs of ancient artifacts and artwork that may depict period expected nudity and violence.
Beowulf (Bilingual Edition)
Reprinted in 2000 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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