TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heaney,Seamus
TI  - Beowulf: a new verse translation 
SN  - 0393320979
AV  - PR 1583 .H43 2001
U1  - 829.3 
KW  - Heroes
KW  - Scandinavia
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Epic poetry, English (Old)
KW  - Monsters
KW  - Dragons
KW  - Miscellaneous fiction
N1  - Introduction -- Note on names / Alfred David -- Beowulf -- Family trees -- Acknowledgements; Young Adult
N2  - Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, 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 end of the twentieth century, 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
ER  -