false 75602608 1268370 52357 0393320979 9780393320978 873 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170387470m/52357.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170387470s/52357.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52357.Beowulf_A_New_Verse_Translation 3.40 13068 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 71831 7512 29574 3.53 16064 1157 1000 4 0 false Sat Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 13:22:10 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 13:27:10 -0700 2009
Awesome translation. Beautiful epic.]]>