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Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition
Seamus(Trans Heaney
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Description for Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition
Paperback. Seamus Heaney's best-selling ?Beowulf? is now wedded to more than one hundred glorious images. Translator(s): Heaney, Seamus. Num Pages: 288 pages, 80 color and 41 black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 192 x 19. Weight in Grams: 848.
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf ?is the elegiac narrative of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. Drawn to what he has called the "four-squareness of the utterance" in ?Beowulf ?and its immense emotional credibility Seamus Heaney gives the great epic convincing reality
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf ?is the elegiac narrative of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. Drawn to what he has called the "four-squareness of the utterance" in ?Beowulf ?and its immense emotional credibility Seamus Heaney gives the great epic convincing reality
But how to visualize the poet's story has always been a challenge for modern-day readers. In Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition, 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 ... Read more
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Publisher
WW Norton & Co New York
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393330106
SKU
V9780393330106
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99-50
About Seamus(Trans Heaney
Seamus Heaney (1939—2013) was an Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer and recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born at Mossbawn farmhouse between Castledawson and Toomebridge, County Derry, he resided in Dublin until his death. John D. Niles is the Nancy C. Hoefs Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Reviews for Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition
"Accomplish[es] what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right."