Beowulf

Seamus Heaney author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Published:8th Apr '02

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Beowulf, now in Seamus Heaney's inspired translation - the Whitbread Book of the Year 1999 - is a classic of world literature and poetry.

Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf" is a Northern epic and a classic of European literature. In this new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work that is true, line by line, to the original poem.

Composed towards the end of the first millennium, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is one of the great Northern epics and a classic of European literature. In his new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work which is both true, line by line, to the original poem, and an expression, in its language and music, of something fundamental to his own creative gift.

The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on, physically and psychically exposed, in that exhausted aftermath. It is not hard to draw parallels between this story and the history of the twentieth century, nor can Heaney's Beowulf fail to be read partly in the light of his Northern Irish upbringing. But it also transcends such considerations, telling us psychological and spiritual truths that are permanent and liberating.

  • Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Book of the Year 1999
  • Winner of Whitbread Prize (Poetry) 1999
  • Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Poetry Category 1999

ISBN: 9780571203765

Dimensions: 200mm x 130mm x 7mm

Weight: 180g

144 pages

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