Title Information
PR1583.H43 2001
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Book
TITLE:
Beowulf : a new verse translation / Seamus Heaney.
UNIFORM TITLE:
Beowulf. English & English (Old English)
PUBLISHED:
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2001, c2000.
DESCRIPTION:
xxx, 213 p. : geneal. tables ; 24 cm.
EDITION:
Bilingual ed.
NOTES:
Library Journal
NOTES:
Kliatt Starred
NOTES:
Interest level: Adult
NOTES:
Text in English and Old English.
NOTES:
A bilingual edition of "Beowulf," the Anglo-Saxon tale in which a Geat warrior slays a hideous monster to save the Danish people and eventually becomes a beloved king, featuring the Old English verse side-by-side with Irish poet Seamus Heaney's Modern English verse translation; also includes family trees.
SUBJECT:
Heroes--Scandinavia--Poetry.
SUBJECT:
Epic poetry, English (Old)
SUBJECT:
Monsters--Poetry.
SUBJECT:
Dragons--Poetry.
SUBJECT:
Heroes and heroines--Poetry.
SUBJECT:
Epic poetry.
SUBJECT:
Bilingual books--English-Old English.
ADDED ENTRY:
Heaney, Seamus.
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