BEOWULF by Maria Dahvana Headley

Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley My rating: 5 of 5 stars Stunning, subversive, and beautiful. I loved Heaney’s version of Beowulf but this was truly lovely and wild, with all the piss taking braggadacious rollicking humor and bittersweet angry tragedy of the original. In an academic sense this is a brilliant translation....

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