Beowulf (Bilingual Edition)
By Seamus Heaney
- Release Date: 2001-02-17
- Genre: Poetry
Description
New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award.
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, 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, Nobel laureate 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.
Reviews
Beowulf
1By very annoyed12Stop sending me this pop upBeowulf is lit
5By realyrealtime💯Good epic tone and wording
5By magical ballllll!Much better than the modern translation. This older translation provides a sense that you vividly experienced a hero’s life, where as modern translation is just like looking through bird view.Unrealistic
5By hylN ca hoedI personally believe that the story is unrealistic and that Beowulf wouldn’t have beat a real life dragon.Terrible
1By elijahtrogersTerribleGreat text, worthless copy
2By FishforfeetThis E-book is worthless. It lost track of my place every time I closed it once I got the the English translation. I had to highlight a word to keep track. When I had about 50 pages left, it thought the book was complete and popped up adds for other books every few page flips. Maddening.Beowulf Sample
1By Xyz123:)I wanted to read a sample of Healey’s translation. BUT the sample reading was 37 pages of the introduction. I never got a chance to actually read the text.Good modern translation
5By TacoMauri_96Very easy to digest I loved it 😍😍😍They have fixed the missing Old English part
5By RebecitaThis is awesome! I couldn't get through the version in my textbook, and this one made me read it for fun.:) By the way, this book does now include the old English.Where's the "bilingual" part?
1By MudflapsIt's touted as a "bilingual" edition. It isn't. The sample only shows the introduction. If you're looking for the Old English like in the print edition, it isn't here. Disappointing and false advertising.
