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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: A New Verse Translation. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who...
- reprint, braille
- W. W. Norton & Company, 2001
- 0393320979, 9780393320978
Feb 15, 2000 · Beowulf the warrior, virtually a caricature of exaggerated, implausible heroism in some translations, is rescued in this new version to stand revealed as someone credibly human. Heaney's translation is eminently readable, but does not sacrifice the poem's true soul.
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- $14.99
Beowulf has been translated into at least 38 other languages. In 1805, the historian Sharon Turner translated selected verses into modern English. This was followed in 1814 by John Josias Conybeare who published an edition "in English paraphrase and Latin verse translation."
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation. 'Beowulf', composed between the 7th and 12th century, is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the...
Feb 15, 2000 · Beowulf: A New Verse Translation. Seamus Heaney. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Feb 15, 2000 - Poetry - 213 pages. A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate.
