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Beowulf The Oldest English Epic

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ISBN-10: 0195024354

ISBN-13: 9780195024357

Edition: 1940 (Reprint)

Authors: Charles W. Kennedy, Charles W. Kennedy

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This new poetic translation brings the earliest extant English poem closer to the modern reader. Kennedy offers a translation in alliterative verse, based on Klaeber's text, of the Old English Beowulf, and provides a brief critical introduction which reviews literary and cultural discussions of the poem.
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Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 1940
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/19/1978
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 7.99" wide x 5.39" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Foreword
Introduction
Beowulf
A Selected Bibliography
A Glossary of Proper Names