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Beowulf by Stephen Mitchell; Mitchell, Stephen, 1943- translator is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Beowulf about?

A widely celebrated translator's vivid, accessible, and elegantly concise rendering of an ancient English masterpiece. Beowulf tells the story of a Scandinavian hero who defeats three evil creatures--a huge, cannibalistic ogre named Grendel, Grendel's monstrous mother, and a dragon--and then dies, mortally wounded during his last encounter. If the definition of a superhero is "someone who uses his special powers to fight evil," then Beowulf is our first English superhero story, and arguably our best. It is also a deeply pious poem, so bold in its reverence for a virtuous pagan past that it teeters on the edge of heresy. From beginning to end, we feel we are in the hands of a master storyteller. Stephen Mitchell's marvelously clear and vivid rendering re-creates the robust masculine music of the original. It both hews closely to the meaning of the Old English and captures its wild energy and vitality, not just as a deep "work of literature" but also as a rousing entertainment that can still stir our feelings and rivet our attention today, after more than a thousand years. This new translation--spare, sinuous, vigorous in its narration, and translucent in its poetry--makes a masterpi

Who reads Beowulf?

Author

Stephen Mitchell; Mitchell, Stephen, 1943- translator

Publisher

New Haven: Yale University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300236668

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Poetry, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.42 / 5 (52 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13