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. Introduction -- Note On Names / Alfred David -- Beowulf -- Family Trees -- Acknowledgements. Seamus Heaney. Text In English And Old English.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Poetry
- Ancient, Classical & Medieval
- Medieval
- Ancient, Classical & Medieval
- Poetry
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Author : Heaney, Seamus
Language : English
Edition : Bilingual
Published :2001-02-17
Number Of Pages : 256
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0393320979
ISBN-13 : 9780393320978
Item weight : 0.65 lb
Dimensions : 0.79 in x 5.98 in x 8.19 in
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