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Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition - Unknown, Howell D. Chickering
Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition
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The first major poem in English literature, Beowulf tells the story of the life and death of the legendary hero Beowulf in his three great battles with supernatural monsters. The ideal Anglo-Saxon warrior-aristocrat, Beowulf is an example of the heroic spirit at its finest.Leading Beowulf scholar... show more
The first major poem in English literature, Beowulf tells the story of the life and death of the legendary hero Beowulf in his three great battles with supernatural monsters. The ideal Anglo-Saxon warrior-aristocrat, Beowulf is an example of the heroic spirit at its finest.Leading Beowulf scholar Howell D. Chickering, Jr.’s, fresh and lively translation, featuring the Old English on facing pages, allows the reader to encounter Beowulf as poetry. This edition incorporates recent scholarship and provides historical and literary context for the modern reader. It includes the following:an introductiona guide to reading alouda chart of royal genealogiesnotes on the background of the poemcritical commentaryglosses on the eight most famous passages, for the student who wishes to translate from the originalan extensive bibliography
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9781400096220 (1400096227)
Publisher: Anchor
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
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4.0 Pre-Arthurian-Myth: "Beowulf" by Unkwown, Seamus Heaney
(Original Review, 2001-02-20)If you are familiar with the Hindu myth-kitty though, you may also find parallels between “Beowulf” and the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. When Jambavan spends a lot of time telling Hanuman about how great he is, to induce him to jump to Lanka in search of Sita, or Arjun ...
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5.0 Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
The oldest epic poem in English follows the feats of its titular protagonist over the course of days and years that made him a legend among his clan, friends, and even enemies. Beowulf was most likely orally transmitted before finally be written down several centuries later by an unknown Christian ...
Arbie's Unoriginally Titled Book Blog
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3.0 Beowulf, Seamus Heaney
So this is the "Bi-lingual" edition with original Anglo-Saxon and Heaney's Modern English adaptation on facing pages. And indeed, the original may as well be a foreign language given the extent of my understanding of it, however, two things are notable about it even to my uninitiated view: alliterat...
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3.0 Beowulf: Mini Review
A lot of wank. That's pretty much all that's going on here. I can see how this stands as one of the foundations of contemporary Fantasy as a genre, but other than that, it's just a lot of standing around and comparing dick sizes, really. Grendel and his mother take up 6, maybe 8 stanzas of the entir...
Emad Attely [The Book Nerd]
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4.0 Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
What a classic!I still remember when professor Thaer introduced Beowulf to us 5 years ago. I really loved it back then, and I still love it now. Recommended.
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