Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney: Bilingual Edition

Heaney, Seamus (Translator)

ISBN 10: 0374111197 / ISBN 13: 9780374111199

Edité par Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2000

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FUNDAMENTAL: BRILLIANT: MAGNIFICENT: BREATH-TAKING: NEW Stated First Bilingual Edition hardcover (Orig. 2000) Unstated Later Printing (c. 2020), NEW unclipped jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners protected in a carefully applied mylar-sleeve & showing $25.00 orig. pub. price at top right inside front flyleaf corner, NEW cover w/ sharp new edges & corners & w/ black linen wrapping spine & extending 1.36" onto front & back panels beautifully covered in excellent midnight-blue paper, EXCELLENT unmarked smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, PRISITNE interior handsomely printed on excellent UNBLEMISHED paper handsomely presenting the original text (left) w/ Heaney's brilliant translation (right) w/ line numbering presented throughout at intervals of 10 (left margins) & w/ side notes at right of right hand (translation) page * 6.24" x 9.25" x 1.0", 0.56 kg, xxxii+224 (256) pp. * CONTENTS: Introduction (ix), A Note on Names by Alfred David (xxxi); Beowulf (2-213); Family Trees (217), Acknowledgments (219) * Winner of the Whitbread Award * ABOUT THE BOOK: A brilliant & faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate: 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 &, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country & dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, & then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote & uncannily familiar at the end of the 20th 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" & its immense emotional credibility, Heaney gives these epic qualities new & convincing reality for the contemporary reader. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "Heaney has turned to Beowulf & the result is magnificent, breathtaking . . . Heaney has created something imperishable & 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." - James Wood, the Guardian * ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR: The late Seamus Heaney received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1995. A resident of Dublin (after 1976), he taught regularly at Harvard University. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a nominal additional fee & via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international shipments at our posted rates.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney: Bilingual Edition
• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York
• Date de parution: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0374111197
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780374111199
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: Unstated Later Print
• État de l'article: New
• État de la jaquette: New
• Poids: 0,56 kilogramme

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A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate.

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.

À propos de l?auteur

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include Opened Ground, Electric Light, Beowulf, The Spirit Level, District and Circle, and Finders Keepers. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats."