Beowulf and Other Old English Poems

Name: Beowulf and Other Old English Poems
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ISBN: 9780812222753

ISBN-10: 081222275X

ISBN-13: 9780812222753

Edition: 2011

Authors: Craig Williamson, Tom Shippey, Ruth Mazo Karras

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The best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes, treasure and transience, feuds and fidelity. Composed sometime between 500 and 1000 C.E. and surviving in a single manuscript, it is at once immediately accessible and forever mysterious. And in Craig Williamson's splendid new version, this often translated work may well have found its most compelling modern English interpreter.Williamson's Beowulf appears alongside his translations of many of the major works written by Anglo-Saxon poets, including the elegies "The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer," the heroic "Battle of Maldon," the visionary "Dream of the Rood," the mysterious and…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 6/14/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English