This Norton Critical Edition includes: Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney's poetic translation of the great Anglo-Saxon epic-winner of the Whitbread Prize-along with his translator's introduction. Detailed explanatory annotations and an introduction to Old English language and prosody by Daniel Donoghue. More than two dozen visuals,including,new to the Second Edition,a fine selection of objects from the Staffordshire Hoard. A rich array of Anglo-Saxon and early northern civilisation materials,providing student readers with Beowulf's cultural and historical context. Nine critical interpretations,three of them new to the Second Edition. A glossary of personal names and a selected bibliography.
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Publisher: WW Norton & CoISBN: 9780393938371Weight: 291 gDimensions: 216 x 130 x 20 mmEdition: Second Edition
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"Magnificent,breathtaking... Heaney has created something imperishable and great that is stainless-stainless,because its force as poetry makes it untouchable by the claw of literalism: it lives singly,as an English language poem."
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney's passing in 2013 robbed the literary world of one of its most profound and learned voices. Born in 1939 in Northern Ireland,Heaney began publishing poetry whilst lecturing in Belfast in the 1960s,later moving to Dublin where he resided under his death.
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