Beowulf

A New Verse Translation

By: Seamus Heaney

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Paperback | 1 July 2005 | Edition Number 1

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The oldest epic tale in the English language composed between the 7th and 10th century.

Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem 'Beowulf' is a Northern epic and a classic of European literature. In this new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work that is true, line by line, to the original poem.

About The Author

Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in County Derry in Northern Ireland. He grew up in the country, on a farm, in touch with a traditional rural way of life, which he wrote about in his first book Death of a Naturalist (1966). He attended the local school and in 1951 went as a boarder to St Columb's College, about 40 miles away in Derry (the poem 'Singing School' in North refers to this period of his life). In 1956 he went on a scholarship to Queen's University, Belfast and graduated with a first class degree in English Language and Literature in 1961. He has published poetry, criticism and translations which have established him as one of the leading poets of his generation.

In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. District and Circle is his twelfth collection of poems, and his first new collection for five years.

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Heaney renders this marvellously alive Old English poem - a pagan masterpiece of fate, heroes and monsters, filtered in part through early Christianity - with superb craftsmanship, always at the service of the original, never drawing excessive attention to itself, yet at the same time yielding poetry that is moving and readable in its own right. (Kirkus UK)

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