Beowulf (Heaney transl. - U.S. Bilingual Ed.)

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Translator: Seamus Heaney ISBN: 9780393320978 Binding: paperback Section: Literature of the Middle Ages Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narr ative 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 beginning of the twenty-first century, Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface. Show more