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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Seamus HeaneyPublish date:2000-02-15Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plISBN-13:9780374111199ISBN-10:374111197UPC:9780374111199Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, Medieval, EpicBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshAward:1999 Costa Book Awards Winner - Poetry Award|1999 Costa Book Awards Winner - Book of the Year Award|2001 ALA Notable Books Winner - Poetry AwardSize:9.42 x 6.24 x 0.99 inchesWeight:1.1618Product ID:SCD8B6A502

A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate.

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plISBN-13:9780374111199ISBN-10:374111197UPC:9780374111199Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, Medieval, EpicBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshAward:1999 Costa Book Awards Winner - Poetry Award|1999 Costa Book Awards Winner - Book of the Year Award|2001 ALA Notable Books Winner - Poetry AwardSize:9.42 x 6.24 x 0.99 inchesWeight:1.1618Product ID:SCD8B6A502
Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include Opened Ground, Electric Light, Beowulf, The Spirit Level, District and Circle, and Finders Keepers. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats."
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl

Awards

🏆 1999 Costa Book Awards Winner - Poetry Award|1999 Costa Book Awards Winner - Book of the Year Award|2001 ALA Notable Books Winner - Poetry Award

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Seamus Heaney

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