Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Illustrated Edition)
by Seamus Heaney Author
(From Amazon): New York Times bestseller and winner of the Whitbread Award. 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 gives these epic qualities new and convincing reality for the contemporary reader.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 978-0393-33010-6
- Print Status
- In Print
- Parts
- 43
- Pages
- 256
- Suggested Grades
- 7th - 9th
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Edition
- 1st
- Copyright
- 2001
Parts
- 1 pg 3-9 line 1-114
- 2 pg 9-15 line 115-188
- 3 pg 15-19 line 189-257
- 4 pg 19-23 line 258-319
- 5 pg 23-27 line 320-370
- 6 pg 27-31 line 371-455
- 7 Pt 7: pg 31-35 line 456-498
- 8 Pt 8: pg 35-39 line 499-558
- 9 Pt 9: pg 39-45 line 559-661
- 10 Pt 10: pg 45-49 line 662-709
- 11 Pt 11: pg 49-53 line 710-789
- 12 Pt 12: pg 53-57 line 790-835
- 13 Pt 13: pg 57-61 line 836-923
- 14 Pt 14: pg 61-67 line 924-989
- 15 Pt 15: pg 67-69 line 990-1048
- 16 Pt 16: pg 69-77 line 1049-1125
- 17 Pt 17: pg 77-83 line 1126-1190
- 18 Pt 18: pg 83-87 line 1191-1250
- 19 Pt 19: pg 87-91 line 1251-1320
- 20 Pt 20: pg 91-95 line 1321-1382
- 21 Pt 21: pg 95-101 line 1383-1472
- 22 Pt 22: pg 101-105 line 1474-1556
- 23 Pt 23: pg 105-111 line 1557-1650
- 24 Pt 24: pg 111-119? line 1651-1757?
- 25 Pt 25: pg 119?-123 line 1757?-1816
- 26 Pt 26: pg 123-127 line 1817-1887
- 27 Pt 27: pg 127-133 line 1888-1962
- 28 Pt 28: pg 133-135 line 1963-1998
- 29 Pt 29: pg 135-137 line 1999-2031
- 30 Pt 30: pg 137-143 line 2032-2143
- 31 Pt 31: pg 145-149 line 2144-2220
- 32 Pt 32: pg 149-155 line 2221-2311
- 33 Pt 33: pg 155-161 line 2312-2390
- 34 Pt 34: pg 161-165 line 2391-2462
- 35 Pt 35: pg 165-173 line 2463-2601
- 36 Pt 36: pg 173-179 line 2602-2693
- 37 Pt 37: pg 179-183 line 2694-2751
- 38 Pt 38: pg 183-189 line 2752-2820
- 39 Pt 39: pg 189-193 line 2821-2891
- 40 Pt 40: pg 193-195 line 2892-2945
- 41 Pt 41: pg 195-201 line 2946-3057
- 42 Pt 42: pg 201-207 line 3058-3136
- 43 Pt 43: pg 207-209 line 3137-3182
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