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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (also known as Heaneywulf) is a verse translation of the Old English epic poem Beowulf into modern English by the Irish poet and playwright Seamus Heaney. It was published in 1999 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux and Faber and Faber , and won that year's Whitbread Book of the Year Award .
Beowulf. English & English (Old English) Beowulf I [translated by] Seamus Heaney. — 1st ed. p. cm. Text in English and Old English. 1. Heroes—Scandinavia—Poetry. 2. Epic poetry, English (Old). 3. Monsters—Poetry. 4. Dragons—Poetry. I. Heaney, Seamus. PE1383.H43 1999 829^.3—dC2i 99-23209 ISBN 0-393-32097-9 pbk. W. W. Norton ir ...
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Throughout the 1990s, Seamus Heaney worked on what was to become his most celebrated work of translation, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. One of the great Northern epics and a classic of European literature, it tells the tale of its eponymous hero’s triumphs as a young warrior and his fated death as a defender of his people.
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Feb 15, 2000 · 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 end of the twentieth century, Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface.
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Apr 13, 2012 · 7.3K. 925K views 12 years ago. Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney's new translation of Beowulf comes to life in this gripping audio. Heaney's performance reminds us that Beowulf, written...
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Jan 19, 2012 · Beowulf [text (large print)] : a new verse translation : Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
Aug 4, 2011 · Beowulf : a new verse translation. by. Heaney, Seamus, 1939-. Publication date. 2000. Topics. Heroes, Epic poetry, English (Old), Monsters, Dragons. Publisher. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
