Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Dual Eng/Sph) by Seamus Heaney (Translator)
	List Price:   $13.95 Unit Price:   $11.16 You Save:   $2.79 (20%) ISBN-10:   0393320979 ISBN-13:   9780393320978 Publisher:   W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated Series:   Critical Editions Ser. Category:   Spanish Books, Dual Language Pub. Date:   February 2001 Pages:   256 Format:   Trade Paper
Awards
2000  New York Times Editors' Choice  Winner!  2001  American Library Association Notable Books  Winner!  2001  Original Voices Award  Nominee/Honoree
Subjects
EPIC POETRY
Description/Notes
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the classic Northern epic of a hero's triumphs as a young warrior & his fated death as a defender of his people. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, & then having to live on, physically & psychically exposed in the exhausted aftermath. It is not hard to draw parallels in this story to the historical curve of consciousness in the twentieth century, but the poem also transcends such considerations, telling us psychological & spiritual truths that are permanent & liberating. In his new translation, Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney has produced a work that is both true, line by line, to the original poem & a fundamental expression of his own creative gift. '[Heaney is] the one living poet who can rightfully claim to be the Beowulf poet's heir.'--Edward Mendelson, New York Times Book Review.