Beowulf: A New Verse Translation - Hardcover

Heaney, Seamus

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374111197 ISBN 13: 9780374111199

Verlag: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, 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, Nobel laureate 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.

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Críticas:

"[Heaney is] the one living poet who can rightly claim to be the 'Beowulf' poet's heir." --Edward Melson, The New York Times Book Review

Reseña del editor:

The Nobel Prizewinning Irish poet presents a faithful, new translation of the AngloSaxon epic chronicling the heroic adventures of Beowulf, the Scandinavian warrior who saves his people from the ravages of the monster Grendel and Grendel's mother. 15,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0374111197
• ISBN 13: 9780374111199
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256