Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)Book Summary InformationTranslator: Seamus HeaneyEdition: Paperback Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 2001-02 ISBN: 0393320979 Number of pages: 215 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. Book Reviews of Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)Book Review: Gripping narrative and beautiful language make this a must.So. Seamus has done us a big favour by rescuing this epic poem from the obscurer reaches of university syllabuses. As one of the great poems of European literature, it deserves a wider audience. Written some time between the seventh and tenth centuries it runs to around 3,200 lines. You can easily read it in a sitting because it grips. In his introduction Seamus notes that J R R Tolkien wrote a famous essay about the poem in 1936. Here, in my view, is the source of the rings and the swords. There is a dragon and, if the tale of its awakening is not how Bilbo and Smaug meet, I'll eat my hat: |
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