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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney; Overdrive Inc is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Beowulf: A New Verse Translation about?

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.

Who reads Beowulf: A New Verse Translation?

Author

Seamus Heaney; Overdrive Inc

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780871407832

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Fiction

Rating

3.42 / 5 (159,931 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14