Beowulf A Verse Translation

Name: Beowulf A Verse Translation
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ISBN: 9780393975802

ISBN-10: 0393975800

ISBN-13: 9780393975802

Edition: 2001

Authors: Seamus Heaney, Daniel Donoghue

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Book details

List price: $16.50
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/18/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in Northern Ireland. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. A resident of Dublin, he has taught poetry at Oxford University and Harvard University.



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Old English Language and Poetics


Translator's Introduction


The Text of Beowulf


Contexts


The Beowulf Manuscript



Genesis 4.1-16 Cain and Abel


Hall-Feasts and the Queen


Grettir the Strong and the Trollwoman


The Frisian Slaughter: Episode and Fragment


Alcuin "What has Ingeld to do with Christ?"


Gregory of Tours History of the Franks [Hygelac's Raid into Frisia]


William of Malmesbury [Genealogy of the Royal Family of Wessex]


On the Wars between the Swedes and the Geats


Genealogies of the Royal Families in Beowulf


The Kingdoms and Tribes of Beowulf


Map: The Scandinavian Setting of Beowulf


Beowulf's Name



Criticism


Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics



The Interlace Structure of Beowulf



The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother



The Beowulf Poet's Sense of History



The Tomb of Beowulf



The Christian Language and Theme of Beowulf



Archaeology and Beowulf



The Philologer Poet: Seamus Heaney and the Translation of Beowulf



Glossary of Personal Names


Selected Bibliography