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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (also known as Heaneywulf [1]) 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 .
- Anonymous (the Beowulf poet)
- Epic poetry
- 256
Feb 15, 2000 · Earlier this year a new version of Beowulf was published, translated by the Irish Nobel Prize Winner (for 1995) Seamus Heaney. Heaney has spent many years trying to get this translation just right, and I believe he hit the nail on the head in this case.
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- $14.99
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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Explore Seamus Heaney's translation of the epic poem Beowulf, delving into its thematic depth, literary devices, and the enduring legacy of this ancient narrative.
Jan 19, 2012 · Beowulf [text (large print)] : a new verse translation. by. Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013. Publication date. 2001. Topics. Heroes, Epic poetry, English (Old), Monsters, Dragons. Publisher. New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Co.
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...
Feb 17, 2001 · How did Seamus Heaney fashion verses, singularly handsome verses that not only capture the somber grandeur and mythic vigor of the Anglo-Saxon original, but also reflect the rhythm and timbre of the English we speak today.... This newborn translation makes accessible to everyone the first supremely great poem to be written in the English language."
