Beowulf
A New Verse Translation
By Seamus Heaney
(W. W. Norton & Company, Paperback, 9780393320978, 213pp.)
Publication Date: February 2001
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback (December 2001), Hardcover (February 2000)
Categories: Ancient, Classical & Medieval, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Description
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, "Beowulf" is the classic Northern epic of a hero's triumphs as a young warrior and his fated death as a defender of his people. In his new translation--a national bestseller that is the winner of the Whitbread Award--Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney has produced a work that is both true, line by line, to the original poem and a fundamental expression of his own creative gift. (Poetry)











