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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

Door Seamus Heaney

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#353979-XF35
Titel
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
Auteur
Heaney, Seamus
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
New York/London : W.W. Norton & Company
Jaar van uitgave
2000
ISBN10
0393320979
ISBN13
9780393320978
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, text juxtaposed in Icelandic and English, family trees in rear, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative 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. Drawn to what he has called the "four-squareness of the utterance" in Beowulf and its immense emotional credibility, Heaney gi... (Lees verder)ves these epic qualities new and convincing reality for the contemporary reader.
Pagina's
213
Conditie
Goed — Partly browned.
Prijs
€ 10,00

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