beowulf de heaney seamus translator (64 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : Fair.

Paperback. Etat : Fair.

Paperback. Etat : Fair.

paperback. Etat : Good. Ships quickly. Mild to moderate shelf/reading wear. Orphans Treasure Box sells books to raise money for orphans and vulnerable kids.

paperback. Etat : Good. This book is in very good condition, but has small light tan stain along the front edge. Pages are bright, clean & unmarked, solid bindings. Minor shelf/edge wear. In the mail within 24 hours.

paperback. Etat : Good. DIFFERENT ARTWORK minimal wear on edges and cornersYour purchase benefits those with developmental disabilities to live a better quality of life.

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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Nice book with light wear.

hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Very nice book.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Fourth Printing. Light to moderate shelf wear to boards and dust jacket. Ex-library markings. Previous owner's name blacked out with marker on front end page. Good reading copy. Thank you for supporting Last Word Books and independent bookstores.

hardcover. Etat : Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Later prt. 8vo, 220 pp.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. fourth printing. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling with Whitbread Award label on front panel, in a mylar cover.

paperback. Etat : Good. Stamped number and "Damascus High School English Department stamped on edges; 213 p., clean and otherwise unmar-ked on paper that is tanning but not brittle; binding firm; wrapper is creased at corners and a large label has been awkwardly peeled off verso of rear panel.Serviceable reading copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. hardcover with dust jacket, tight, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, previous owners name and date written on flyleaf, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders.

paperback. Etat : Very Good. Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.

paperback. Etat : Very Good.

Paperback. Etat : Good. Bilingual (Old English/English) Edition. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elgiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scaninavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then return to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. In this work, Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to Beowulf's poetry from deep beneath its surface. Drawn to what he has called the 'four-squareness of the utterance' and its immense emotional credulity, he gives these epic qualities a new, vital reality. 213p.

Hardcover. Etat : As New. Fine/Very Good, tenth printing stated (2000), tight clean unmarked, looks unread, boards likewise clean & undamaged, dust jacket NOT price-clipped, dj shows ordinary mild shelf wear.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. When the great monster Grendel comes to Denmark and dashes its warriors' hopes, installing himself in their great hall and eating alive the valiant lords, the hero Beowulf arrives from over the ocean to wrestle the beast. He saves the Danes, who sing of his triumphs, but soon the monster's mother turns up to take him hostage: having killed her, our hero goes home to the land of the Geats, acquires the kingship, and fights to the death an enormous dragon. That's the plot of this narrative poem, composed more than a millennium ago in the Germanic language that gave birth (eventually) to our version of English. Long a thing for professors to gloss, the poem includes battles, aggressive boasts, glorious funerals, frightening creatures and a much-studied alliterative meter; earlier versions in current vernacular have pleased lay readers and helped hard-pressed students. Nobel laureate Heaney has brought forth a finely wrought, controversial (for having won a prize over a children's book) modern English version, one which retains, even recommends, the archaic strengths of its warrior world, where 'The Spear-Danes in days gone by/ and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness.' Well-known digressionsAa detailed dirge, the tale-within-a-tale of Hengest, 'homesick and helpless' in ancient FrieslandAfind their ways into Heaney's English, which holds to the spirit (not always the letter) of the en face Anglo-Saxon, fusing swift story and seamless description, numinous adjectives and earthy nouns: in one swift scene of difficult swimming, 'Shoulder to shoulder, we struggled on/ for five nights, until the long flow/ and pitch of the waves, the perishing cold drove us apart. The deep boiled up/ and its wallowing sent the sea-brutes wild.' Heaney's evocative introduction voices his long-felt attraction to the poem's 'melancholy fortitude,' describing the decades his rendering took and the use he discovered for dialect terms. It extends in dramatic fashion Heaney's long-term archeological delvings, his dig into the origins of his beloved, conflicted - by politics and place - English language.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. When the great monster Grendel comes to Denmark and dashes its warriors' hopes, installing himself in their great hall and eating alive the valiant lords, the hero Beowulf arrives from over the ocean to wrestle the beast. He saves the Danes, who sing of his triumphs, but soon the monster's mother turns up to take him hostage: having killed her, our hero goes home to the land of the Geats, acquires the kingship, and fights to the death an enormous dragon. That's the plot of this narrative poem, composed more than a millennium ago in the Germanic language that gave birth (eventually) to our version of English. Long a thing for professors to gloss, the poem includes battles, aggressive boasts, glorious funerals, frightening creatures and a much-studied alliterative meter; earlier versions in current vernacular have pleased lay readers and helped hard-pressed students. Nobel laureate Heaney has brought forth a finely wrought, controversial (for having won a prize over a children's book) modern English version, one which retains, even recommends, the archaic strengths of its warrior world, where 'The Spear-Danes in days gone by/ and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness.' Well-known digressionsAa detailed dirge, the tale-within-a-tale of Hengest, 'homesick and helpless' in ancient FrieslandAfind their ways into Heaney's English, which holds to the spirit (not always the letter) of the en face Anglo-Saxon, fusing swift story and seamless description, numinous adjectives and earthy nouns: in one swift scene of difficult swimming, 'Shoulder to shoulder, we struggled on/ for five nights, until the long flow/ and pitch of the waves, the perishing cold drove us apart. The deep boiled up/ and its wallowing sent the sea-brutes wild.' Heaney's evocative introduction voices his long-felt attraction to the poem's 'melancholy fortitude,' describing the decades his rendering took and the use he discovered for dialect terms. It extends in dramatic fashion Heaney's long-term archeological delvings, his dig into the origins of his beloved, conflicted - by politics and place - English language.

213pp. 8vo Black boards and black cloth back 7th printing Nice clean tight bright copy: Near Fine/ Fine dj 0-374-11119-7.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Dust Jacket Included. black 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. minor rubbing, not torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. 6th printing. 2 color title pg. xxxii+220p. old english & modern english texts on facing pages. family trees. mythology. folklore. medieval literature. poetry. medieval sagas ~ 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.

Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 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.

hardcover. Etat : Very Good.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. Jacket bumped at head of spine, else fine. First bilingual edition.

Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. 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.

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. A lovely First Edition copy! Fine condition in trade paperback -- clean, bright, and tight -- with no markings and no defects of any kind. First paperback edition ("This paperback edition first published in 2000"). Suitable condition for adding to a library collection or for presentation as a gift. Ships from NC. All paperbacks are sealed in recycled plastic, packaged securely with recycled cardboard backing, and shipped promptly with tracking. (I-2.).

Hardcover. Etat : Fine - As New. First Bilingual Edition. Classic translation of the Old English Anglo Saxon epic. 'The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath'. A 'magnificent, breathtaking epic by Nobel Prize Winner, Seamus Heaney'. 213pp. Bright, clean, unmarked copy, about 'as new'. Unclipped dustjacket is similar. Weight, 500g. This book, weighing 500g prior to packing, does not qualify for the rate shown - [Canada Post Lettermail , under 500g, under 20mm thick] - therefore additional postage may be needed, the amount depending on destination, speed and other options. We have sold to over 65 Countries. We can notify customers of the correct rates available at the point of Order or Inquiry. This change may be accepted or declined. All postal rates are at or below our cost. We use 3 Postal Systems to find the best available prices available to us! Ships anywhere in Canada, boxed, for $12.500 [this figure subject to exchange rates].

Softcover. Etat : Very Good. 260pp, colour photographs throughout. Pictorial laminated light card covers, French flaps. 8vo. Significant shelf wear to covers. Internally, neat, clean, bright and tight.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good +. No Jacket. Seamus Heaney (Translator) (illustrateur). 1st Edition. Very good + copy. (see picture) 256 pages.All clean,tight and bright.