2000, ISBN: 9780374111199

Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 02, 256 Seiten , Hardcover/Pappeinband Fresh and clean copy in good condition. Hardcover with original dustjacket. Frisches und sauberes Exemplar in gutem Zustan… Plus…

Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 02, 256 Seiten , Hardcover/Pappeinband Fresh and clean copy in good condition. Hardcover with original dustjacket. Frisches und sauberes Exemplar in gutem Zustand. Hardcover mit Original-Schutzumschlag. "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 beginning of the twenty-first 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." Table of Contents: Introduction: A Note on Names - Beowulf - Family Trees - Acknowledgements ISBN 9780374111199Varia 2000, [PU: Farrar, Straus and Giroux]<

2000, ISBN: 9780374111199

Hardcover, [PU: Farrar, Straus and Giroux]