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Item Details
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BEOWULF
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| By: |
Stephen Mitchell (Trans) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£20.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0300228880 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780300228885 |
| Publisher: |
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 November, 2017 |
| Pages: |
264 |
| Description: |
A widely celebrated translator's vivid, accessible, and elegantly concise rendering of an ancient English masterpiece |
| Synopsis: |
A widely celebrated translator's vivid, accessible, and elegantly concise rendering of an ancient English masterpieceBeowulf tells the story of a Scandinavian hero who defeats three evil creatures-a huge, cannibalistic ogre named Grendel, Grendel's monstrous mother, and a dragon-and then dies, mortally wounded during his last encounter. If the definition of a superhero is "someone who uses his special powers to fight evil," then Beowulf is our first English superhero story, and arguably our best. It is also a deeply pious poem, so bold in its reverence for a virtuous pagan past that it teeters on the edge of heresy. From beginning to end, we feel we are in the hands of a master storyteller. Stephen Mitchell's marvelously clear and vivid rendering re-creates the robust masculine music of the original. It both hews closely to the meaning of the Old English and captures its wild energy and vitality, not just as a deep "work of literature" but also as a rousing entertainment that can still stir our feelings and rivet our attention today, after more than a thousand years. This new translation-spare, sinuous, vigorous in its narration, and translucent in its poetry-makes a masterpiece accessible to everyone. |
| Illustrations: |
2 b-w illus. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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