false 25272569 757117 52357 0393320979 9780393320978 872 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170387470m/52357.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52357.Beowulf_A_New_Verse_Translation 3.40 13023 Beowulf is the classic Northern epic of a hero's triumphs as a young warrior and his fated death as a defender of his people. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on, physically and 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 and spiritual truths that are permanent and liberating. In his new translation, Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney has produced a work that is both true, line by line, to the original poem and a fundamental expression of his own creative gift. A New York Times bestseller, winner of the Whitbread Award.]]> 1436 3.78 71616 7504 29574 3.53 16014 1156 0 0 false Mon Jun 23 20:22:24 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 20:22:24 -0700 2008